CROP PRODUCTION TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS AND EQUIPMENT

FARM TOOLS

Bolo - It is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.

Crowbar- It is used for digging big holes and for digging big stones and stumps.

Pick- mattock- It is used for digging canals, breaking hard top and for digging up stones and tree stumps.

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

Spade- It is used for removing trash or soil, digging canal or ditches, and mixing soil media.

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

Rake - It is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.

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

Light Hoe- It is used for loosening and leveling soil and for digging up furrows for planting.

Hand Trowel- It is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer.

Hand Cultivator- It is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removal/removing weeds around the plant.

Hand Fork- It is used for Inter row cultivation.

Pruning Shears- It is used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plant.

Axe- Is used for cutting a bigger size post

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

Sprinklers- Are used for for watering seedlings and young plants.

Water Pails- Are used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers.
 

Sprayers- Are used to spray insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides.

Wheel Barrow- It is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment.

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

FARM IMPLEMENTS

Plows- These are farm implements either pulled by a working animal or a tractor. Theplow 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 orpure metal. They are used to till areas with a shallower depth than that of the disc plowswhich are pulled by tractors.Native plow

Harrow- The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal teeth and pulled by acarabao while the disc harrow is made of metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are usedfor tilling and pulverizing the soil.Native wooden harrow Disc harrow

 Rotavator - The rotavator is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.

FARM EQUIPMENT

Hand tractor is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.

Four wheel tractor is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of land.

Water pumps are used to draw irrigation water from a source.

Thresher  Farm machine for separating wheat, peas, soybeans, and other small grain and seed crops from their chaff and straw. Primitive threshing methods involved beating by hand with a flail or trampling by animal hooves.

Corn Dehusker That is a machine that removes the thin outer covering (husks) from an ear of corn. They are removed to permit the corn to dry for storage.

Rice Harvester  A rice harvester is a rather small, lightweight and special type of combine harvester developed for harvesting rice on wet/flooded paddy fields. Rice harvesters are usually tracked, and are mainly used in Asia. Their cutting and conveying units are different from the cutterbars/cutting tables/headers of common combines

Grass Cutter a machine or device for cutting grass (as a lawn mower or a scythe)

Rice miller or rice husker is an agricultural machine used to automate the process of removing the chaff of grains of rice. Throughout history, there have been numerous techniques to hull rice

Rice Seeder Any of various apparatus for sowing seeds in the ground, ranging from simple devices that deposit seed evenly over a plot of land to complex machines that prepare a hole in the earth, insert a seed or seeds at the proper depth, and cover the hole again.