Materials, Tools, and Equipment in Agricultural Crop Production

Vocabulary review covering tools, farm implements, and common farm equipment used in agricultural crop production, including their specific functions and applications.

Hand tools

Light agricultural tools manipulated by hand without assistance from any energy or machines, used for small works, farms, gardens, or areas at home, school, or the community.

Bolo

A hand tool used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of trees.

Pick-mattock

A hand tool used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil, and digging up stones and tree stumps.

Grab-hoe

A hand tool used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.

Spade

A hand tool used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil media.

Shovel

A hand tool used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another, and mixing soil media.

Rake

A hand tool used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.

Spading fork

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

Light hoe

A hand tool used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting.

Hand trowel

A hand tool used for loosening the soil around growing plants and putting small amounts of manure fertilizer into the soil.

Hand cultivator

A hand tool used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around the plant.

Hand fork

A hand tool used for inter row cultivation.

Pruning shears

A tool used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants.

Axe

A tool used for cutting bigger size posts.

Knife

A cutting tool used for planting materials and performing other operations in horticulture.

Sprinklers

Tools used for watering seedlings and young plants.

Water pails

Containers used for hauling water, manure, and fertilizers.

Sprayers

Equipment used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides, and herbicides.

Wheelbarrow

A piece of equipment used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials, and other equipment.

Sickle

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

Farm Implements

Accessories made of a special kind of metal that are pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor) and used in the preparation of land.

Plows

Farm implements pulled by a working animal or a tractor, specifically used for tilling large areas, making furrows, and inter row cultivation.

Native Plows

Plows pulled by working animals, constructed of pure metal or a combination of metal and wood, used to till areas with shallower depth than disc plows.

Disc plow

A tractor-pulled implement designed to till soil at a greater depth than animal-pulled plows, typically used to prepare much bigger areas of land.

Harrow

A farm implement used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.

Native wooden harrow

A harrow constructed of wood with metal teeth that is pulled by a carabao for tilling and pulverizing the soil.

Disc harrow

A metal harrow mounted to a tractor, used for tilling and pulverizing the soil on larger land areas.

Rotavator

An implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.

Common Farm Equipment

Machineries requiring a highly skilled operator, used in land preparation (including huge land preparation) and in transporting farm inputs and products.

Hand tractor

A machine used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.

Four-wheel tractor

A machine used to pull a disc plow and disc harrow in preparing a much bigger area of land.

Water pumps

Farm equipment used to draw irrigation water from a source.