This Powerpoint presentation isa about farm tools

1. TLE-AFA-AGRI CROP
PRODUCTION
7
Module 1: Use Farm Tools and
Equipment

2. 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.

3. Bolo
• is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and
chopping branches of trees.

4. Crowbar
is used for digging big holes and for
digging out big stones and stumps.

5. Pick-mattock
• is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and
for digging up stones and tree stumps.

6. Grab hoe
• is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing
soil.

7. Light hoe
•is used for loosening and leveling soil
and digging out furrows for planting.

8. • LIGHT HOE is used for removing weeds and
loosening soil in vegetable bed and under plants
while a GRAB HOE is primarily used to dig and
soil. It will chop through sod to break it up and
removal. It will also work in both firm and soft
soft soil it is usually just used for tilling (mixing)
soil

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

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

11. Rake
• is used for cleaning the ground and
leveling the topsoil.

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

13. Hand trowel
• is used for loosening the soil around the
growing plants and putting small amount of
manure fertilizer in the soil.

14. Hand Cultivator
•is used for
cultivating the
garden plot by
loosening the soil
and removing
weeds around the
plant.

15. Hand fork
•is used for
inter-row
cultivation

16. Pruning shears
•are used for
cutting
branches of
planting
materials and
unnecessary
branches of
plan.

17. Axe
•is used for
cutting bigger
size post

18. Knife
•is used for
cutting
planting
materials.

19. Sprinkler
• is used for
watering
seedlings and
young plants.

20. Water pail
•is used for
hauling water,
manure and
•fertilizers.

21. Sprayer
• is used for spraying
insecticides, foliar
fertilizers,
fungicides and
herbicides.

22. Wheelbarrow
• is used for hauling
trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting
materials and other
equipment.

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