• Farm Equipment - These are
machineries used in crop production.
They are used in land preparation and
in transporting farm inputs and
products. These equipment need a
highly skilled operator to use.
• Farm implements - accessories
pulled by animals or mounted to
machineries to make the work easier.
• Farm tools - objects that are usually light
and are used without the help of animals and
machines
• Preventive maintenance - an activity or
operation done to prevent malfunction of
tools and equipment and it is done to prolong
the useful life of tools and equipment
• Repair - to restore to good condition
something broken or damaged
FARM TOOLS IN AGRICULTURAL
CROP PRODUCTION
Farm tools, implements, and equipment
play very important role in agricultural crop
production. Their availability makes the work
much easier and faster. However, even if one
may have the most sophisticated tools and
implements, but does not know how to use
them, they are useless.
In order to do crop production
operations successfully, one must
have a good working knowledge
of the tools, implements and
equipment before using them.
Hand Tools
•Hand tools are usually light and are
used without the help of animals or
machines. They are being used in
performing farm activities which
involve small areas like school
garden and home garden.
Examples:
1. Bolo is used for
cutting tall grasses
and weeds and
chopping branches
of trees.
2. Crowbar is
used for
digging big
holes and for
digging out big
stones and
stumps.
3.Pick-
mattock is
used for digging
canals, breaking
hard topsoil and
for digging up
stones and tree
stumps.
4. Grab-hoe is
used for
breaking hard
topsoil and
pulverizing soil.
5. Spade is
used for
removing trash
or soil, digging
canals or
ditches and
mixing soil
media.
6. Shovel is
used in removing
trash, digging
loose soil,
moving soil from
one place to
another and for
mixing soil
7. Rake is
used for
cleaning the
ground and
leveling the
topsoil.
8. Spading
fork is used for
loosening the
soil, digging out
root crops and
turning over the
materials in a
compost heap.
9. Light hoe
is used for
loosening
and leveling
soil and
digging out
furrows for
planting
10. Hand
trowel is used
for loosening the
soil around the
growing plants
and putting
small amount of
manure fertilizer
11. Hand
cultivator is
used for
cultivating the
garden plot by
loosening the
soil and
removing weeds
12. Hand
fork is used
for inter row
cultivation.
13. Pruning shears is for
cutting branches of planting
materials and unnecessary
14. Axe is
for cutting
bigger size
post.
15. Knife is
for cutting
planting
materials and
for performing
other
operations in
horticulture
16.
Sprinklers –
for watering
seedlings and
young plants
17. Water
pails – for
hauling
water,
manure and
fertilizers
18. Sprayers are for spraying
insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides
and herbicides
19. Wheel
barrow is used
for hauling
trash, manures,
fertilizers,
planting
materials and
other
20. Sickle is
a hand-held
agricultural
tool with a
variously
curved blade
typically used
for cutting
