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    Farm Tools in Agricultural Crop Production

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    Farm tools and implements play an important role in agricultural crop production by making work easier and faster. However, one must have knowledge of how to properly use the tools. Hand tools are used for small-scale operations and include tools like bolos, crowbars, pick-mattocks, and shovels. Farm implements are larger accessories pulled by animals or mounted to machines that are used for preparing larger areas of land. Examples include plows for tilling and making furrows, and harrows for tilling and pulverizing soil. Proper knowledge of both hand tools and farm implements is necessary for successful crop production.

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    Farm tools and implements play an important role in agricultural crop production by making work easier and faster. However, one must have knowledge of how to properly use the tools. Hand tools are used for small-scale operations and include tools like bolos, crowbars, pick-mattocks, and shovels. Farm implements are larger accessories pulled by animals or mounted to machines that are used for preparing larger areas of land. Examples include plows for tilling and making furrows, and harrows for tilling and pulverizing soil. Proper knowledge of both hand tools and farm implements is necessary for successful crop production.

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    Farm tools and implements play an important role in agricultural crop production by making work easier and faster. However, one must have knowledge of how to properly use the tools. Hand tools are used for small-scale operations and include tools like bolos, crowbars, pick-mattocks, and shovels. Farm implements are larger accessories pulled by animals or mounted to machines that are used for preparing larger areas of land. Examples include plows for tilling and making furrows, and harrows for tilling and pulverizing soil. Proper knowledge of both hand tools and farm implements is necessary for successful crop production.

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    Farm Tools in Agricultural Crop Production

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    Farm tools and implements play an important role in agricultural crop production by making work easier and faster. However, one must have knowledge of how to properly use the tools. Hand tools are used for small-scale operations and include tools like bolos, crowbars, pick-mattocks, and shovels. Farm implements are larger accessories pulled by animals or mounted to machines that are used for preparing larger areas of land. Examples include plows for tilling and making furrows, and harrows for tilling and pulverizing soil. Proper knowledge of both hand tools and farm implements is necessary for successful crop production.

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    “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:
    Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.
    Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
    Pick-mattock is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps.
    Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and 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 ground and levelling 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 levelling 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 weeds around the
    plant.
    Hand fork is used for inter row cultivation.
    Pruning shears 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 – for watering seedlings and young plants
    Water pails – for hauling water, manure and fertilizers
    Sprayers 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.
    Farm Implements
    These are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor)
    which are usually used in the preparation of land. These are usually made of a special kind of metal.
    Examples are:
    1. Plows. These are farm implements either pulled by a working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used
    for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter row cultivation. Plows pulled by working animals are made of
    either a combination of metal or wood or pure metal. They are used to till areas with a shallower depth than that
    of the disc plows which are pulled by tractors.
    2. Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal teeth and pulled by a carabao while the disc
    harrow is made of metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
    3. Rotavator. The Rotavator is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil

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