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FARM TOOLS,
EQUIPMENTS, INPUTS
AND LABOR
Module 2 for College

Name of Student
Lesson 1: SELECT AND USING FARM TOOLS

“Those too lazy to plow in the right

Season will no have food at the harvest.”
Proverbs 20;4
Main Topics:
Introduction
Hand tools
Farm Implements
Farm Machineries
Farm Inputs and Labor

LD Lesson Discussion

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:

1. Axe is for cutting bigger size post.

2. Bolo is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.
3. Crowbar is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
4. Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
5. Hand Cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing
weeds around the plant.
6. Hand Fork is used for inter row cultivation.
7. Hand Trowel is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small
amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.
8. Knife is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in horticulture.
9. Light Hoe is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting
10. Pick-mattock is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and
tree stumps.
11. Pruning Shears is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of
plants.
12. Rake is used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.
13. Shovel is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another
and for mixing soil media.
14. Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting
weeds.
15. Spade is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
16. Sprayers are for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides.
17. Sprinkler is for watering seedlings and young plants.
18. Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other
equipment.

 FARM IMPLEMENTS

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 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:

1. Native Plow
2. Disk plow

Plows 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.

3. Native harrow
4. Disc wooden harrow

Harrows are used for tilling and pulverizing the soil. The native wooden harrow is made of wood
with metal teeth and pulled by a carabao while the disc harrow is made of metal mounted to a
tractor.

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

Lesson 2: SELECT FARM EQUIPMENTS

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COMMON FARM EQUIPMENT
These are machineries used in crop production. They are used in land preparation and in
transporting farm inputs and products. These equipments need a highly skilled operator to use.

Four Wheel Tractor is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of
land.
Water Pump is used to draw irrigation water from a source.
Thresher is a piece of farm equipment that threshers grain, that is, it removes the seeds from
the stalks.
Corn Dehusker machine is used to peel the skin of corn and make maize removed from the cob.
Rice Harvester makes the harvesting process easier by combining six operations such as
gathering, transporting, reaping, threshing, cleaning and bagging into one machine.
Rice Seeder is for sowing germinated paddy seed directly in wetland field.
Miller is to remove the husk and the bran layers, and produce an edible white rice.

FOUR WHEEL TRACTOR THRESHER

CORN DEHUSKER RICE HARVESTER

RICE SEEDER MILLER

Lesson 3: FARM INPUTS AND LABOR

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 FARM INPUTS

They are defined as products permitted for use in farming. These include feedstuffs, fertilizers
and permitted plant protection products. The resources that are used in farm production. The
following are examples:

 Seed is a material which is used for planting or regeneration purpose. However scientifically, it is
a fertilized matured ovule together covered with seed coat and it is a propagating material.
Thus, seed is the most vital and crucial input for crop production.
 Fertilizer is a chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility. There
are two types of fertilizer; organic and inorganic.
 Pesticide is a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated
plants or animals.

FARM LABOR

Farm labor is the manpower to perform agricultural works such as land preparation, planting,
sowing, plant caring, maintenance, harvesting, and storing. It is the comprehensive efforts by an
individual or group of men to successfully fulfill the needs of the demand of farm operations.

LABOR REQUIREMENT FOR LAND PREPARATION:

LABOR REQUIREMENT IN PLANTING OF SEEDLINGS:

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LABOR REQUIREMENT FOR PLANT CARE:

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 Evaluation.

Name: Course & Year: Block:

Instructor: Subject:
Date of Submission: March 6, 2020

Test I.

Identification Direction: Identify each farm tool, equipment and implements. Write your answer in the
space provided.

_________1. It is a farm tool used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.
_________2. It is a farm tool used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.

_________3. It is handy tool used for cutting planting materials and for performing other operation
horticulture.

_________4. A farm tool used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides.
_________5. It is a farm tool used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other
equipment.

_________6. It is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting
weeds.

_________7. It is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
_________8. It is used for cutting bigger size post.

_________9. It is used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants.
_________10. It is a farm tool use for inter row cultivation.

Test II. True or False.

Direction: Read and analyze each statement below. Write T if the statement is correct; F if the statement
is incorrect on the space provided.

______1) Hand tractor is used to draw irrigation water from a source.

______2) Tools that are worn out should be separated and be fixed immediately to avoid accident.
______3) Wedding is the removal of unwanted plants in an area.

______4) Water will help tools to work as intended and will prevent the formation of rust.

______5) For pruners, use a whetstone because it produces a very sharp cutting edge.

Test III Direction: Answer the following questions.

1. How to clean your tools and equipment?

2. What are the ways to maintain the farm tools and equipment?
3. Give at least five (5) advantages and disadvantages of Farm Machineries.
4. What are the important of farm inputs and farm laborers?

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Sources: Learning modules in Agri-Fishery ArtS. PDF

: Green Empire Reviewer Books

***Disclaimer*** Most of the images and graphic illustrations taken from the online resources are
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