Equipment, handtools used in farming. these includes pick mattock, bolo, sickle, crowbar, axe, grabhoe, light hoe etc. Definition of farm handtools and implement.

1. Farm
Tools in
Agricultur
al Crop
Production

2. Farm tools and
implement play a
very important
role in
agricultural crop
production. Their
availability makes
the work much
easier and

3. Hand Tools-these
are usually
light and are
used without the
help of animals
or machines.

4. The following are
basic hand tools
used in
agricultural crop
production:

5. Bolo- This is used for
cutting tall grasses
and weeds, and
chopping branches of

6. Crowbar- this is used for
digging holes and for
digging out big stones and
stumps.

7. Pick Mattock- this is used for
digging canals, breaking hard
topsoil and for digging up stones
and tree stumps

8. Grab Hoe- this is used
for breaking hard topsoil
and pulverizing soil

9. Spade- used for
removing trash or soil,
digging canals or
ditches and mixing soil
media.

10. Shovel- used in removing
trash, digging loose soil,
moving soil from one
place to another and for
mixing soil media.

11. Rake- used for cleaning
the ground and leveling
the topsoil

12. Spading Fork- used for
loosening the soil, digging out
root crops and turning over
the materials in a compost
heap

13. Light Hoe- used for
loosening and leveling
soil and digging out
furrows for planting

14. Hand Trowel- used for
loosening the soil around
the growing plants and
putting small amount of
fertilizer in the soil.

15. Hand Cultivator- used for
cultivating the garden
plot by loosening the soil
and removing weeds

16. Hand Fork- used for
inter row cultivation

17. Pruning Shears- is for
cutting branches of
planting materials and
unnecessary branches of
plants

18. Axe- used for cutting
bigger size post

19. Knife- used for cutting
planting materials and for
performing other
operations in horticulture.

20. Sprinkler- used for
watering seedlings and
young plants

21. Water Pail- used for
hauling water, manure
and fertilizers

22. Sprayer- used for
spraying

23. Wheel Barrow- used for
hauling trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting
materials and other

24. Sickle- is a hand tool
with a variously curved
blade typically used for
cutting weeds

25. Farm Implements
These are accessories
which are being pulled by
working animals or
mounted to machineries
which are usually used in
the preparation of land.

26. Plows- used for tilling large areas,
making furrows and inter row
cultivation

27. Harrow-used for tilling
and pulverizing the soil

28. Rotavator-used for tilling
and pulverizing the soil

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