The document defines agricultural terms and identifies common hand tools used in farming. It explains that hand tools are light objects used manually without animals or machinery. It then lists and describes over 20 different types of hand tools used for various farming tasks like digging, cutting, pruning, hauling, and spraying. The tools include a bolo, crowbar, pick mattock, hoe, spade, shovel, rake, spading fork, and pruning shears.
The document defines agricultural terms and identifies common hand tools used in farming. It explains that hand tools are light objects used manually without animals or machinery. It then lists and describes over 20 different types of hand tools used for various farming tasks like digging, cutting, pruning, hauling, and spraying. The tools include a bolo, crowbar, pick mattock, hoe, spade, shovel, rake, spading fork, and pruning shears.
The document defines agricultural terms and identifies common hand tools used in farming. It explains that hand tools are light objects used manually without animals or machinery. It then lists and describes over 20 different types of hand tools used for various farming tasks like digging, cutting, pruning, hauling, and spraying. The tools include a bolo, crowbar, pick mattock, hoe, spade, shovel, rake, spading fork, and pruning shears.
The document defines agricultural terms and identifies common hand tools used in farming. It explains that hand tools are light objects used manually without animals or machinery. It then lists and describes over 20 different types of hand tools used for various farming tasks like digging, cutting, pruning, hauling, and spraying. The tools include a bolo, crowbar, pick mattock, hoe, spade, shovel, rake, spading fork, and pruning shears.
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Lesson 1
Agricultural Crop Production
USE OF FARM TOOLS OBJECTIVES
1. Define the word(s)
Tool Farm Farm Tool Hand Tool
2. Identify the different kind of hand tools
3. Draw/sketch a kind of hand tool DEFINITION OF TERMS
TOOLS- any device or implements used
to carry out mechanical functions whether manually or by machine.
FARM- an area of land and its buildings
used under one management for growing crops and rearing animals FARM TOOLS- these are used in land preparation
HAND TOOLS- these are objects that are
usually light and are used without the help of animalies and machineries. HAND TOOLS These are tools made of light materials and are used manually.
Most of it are used in cultivating the
area for small garden or in backyard gardening. EXAMPLES BOLO- used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees. CROWBAR- used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps. PICK- MATTOCK- used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps. GRAB HOE- is used for breaking hard topsoiland pulverizing soil. SPADE- is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media. SHOVEL- is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media. RAKE- is used for cleaning the gound and leveling the topsoil. SPADING FORK- is used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the materials in a compost heap. LIGHT HOE- is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting. HAND TROWEL- is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil. HAND CULTIVATOR- is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing the weeds around the plant. HAND FORK- is used for inter row cultivation. PRUNING SHEAR- is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants. AXE- is for cutting bigger size post. KNIFE- is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture. SPRINKLERS- used for watering seedlings and young plants. WATER PAILS- used for hauling water, manure and fertilizer. SPRAYER- are for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides WHEEL BARROW- is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment. SICKLE- is a hand held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting weeds.