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    Technology Livelihood Education 7

    Agricultural Crop Production


    Terms
    • 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
    • Hand Tools
    • 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 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 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.
    • 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 and
    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.
    • Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a
    metal teeth and pulled by a carabao
    • Rotavator. The rotavator is an implement mounted to a tractor
    used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
    Activity 1
    • ______1. Sprinkler A. used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers,
    fungicides and herbicides
    • ______2. Knife B. used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers
    • ______3. Hand Fork C. used for watering seedlings
    • ______4. Bolo D. used for cutting planting materials
    • ______5. Rake E. used for leveling the top soil
    • ______6. Shovel F. used for removing trash, digging loose soil,
    moving soil from one place to another and for mixing soil
    media
    • ______7. Pruning Shear G. used for cutting bigger size post
    • ______8. Sprayer H. used for cutting branches of planting
    materials and unnecessary branches of plants
    • ______9. Pail I. used for inter row cultivation
    • ______10. Axe J. used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping
    branches of trees
    Activity 2
    • Draw a farmland, showing different tools and equipment you
    have learned in the module. Put it on a 1 whole bond paper.
    Color with any medium you want. i.e. crayons, paints, pastel,
    markers etc.

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