TLE Lesson 1 - Agriculture Crop Production (Farming Tools)

Agriculture

practice of cultivating soil, growing crops, and raising animals for food, fiber, fuel, and

other products used to sustain and enhance human life

Bolo

used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees

Pick-Mattock

used to digging canal, breaking hard, topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps

Grab-Hoe

used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil

Shovel

used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another and mixing soil from one place to another and for mixing soil media

Rake

used for drawing together cut grass or fallen leaves

Spading Fork

used for loosening the soil, digging out the root crops and turning over the materials in a compost heap

Hand Trowel

used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil

Sprinklers

used for watering seedlings and young plants

Water Pails

used for hauling water, manure and fertilizer

Wheelbarrow

used for hauling trash, manure, fertilizer, planting materials and other equipment

Sickle

hand – held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for cutting weeds

Axe

used for cutting trunks or branches of trees

Knives

used for cutting plant materials

Hand Cultivator

used like a small plow to dig the planting rows

Hand Fork

used for cultivating the soil and weeding

Four-Wheel Tractor

a self – propelled vehicle designed to carry, pull, or propel agricultural machines and implements

Hand Tractor

a self – propelled machine used for plowing, harrowing, and leveling the field

Harrow

used for breaking up and smoothing the soil

Plows

used for turning over the surface of the soil and burying stubble and weeds in preparation for the cultivation of a crop

Water Pump

device that moves water from its source to the fields and crops

Crates

container used for transporting agricultural products, soil, and seeds

Knapsack Sprayer

used for spraying insecticides and pesticides

Seed Boxes

used during the process of sowing seeds

Seed Trays

used for planting and cultivating seedlings in a controlled environment before

transplanting them to their final growing location

Sprinklers

used to apply water in a method that looks like rainfall to the soil surface