Farm Tools,

Equipments, Inputs
AND LABOR
• At the end of this chapter, the students are
expected to:

• Recognize and Select Farm tools Lesson

• Identify and Select Farm Equipments
• Perform Maintenance
• Remember and Understand the Farm Inputs and
Labor
SELECT AND USING FARM TOOL
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,
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.
Axe is for cutting bigger size post.
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.
Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard
topsoil and pulverizing 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
Hand Trowel is used for loosening
the soil around the growing plants and
putting small amount of manure
fertilizer in the soil.
Knife is for cutting planting
materials and for performing other
operations in horticulture.
Light Hoe is used for loosening and
leveling soil and digging out furrows
for planting
Pick-mattock is used for digging
canals, breaking hard topsoil and for
digging up stones and tree stumps.
Pruning Shears is for cutting
branches of planting materials and
unnecessary branches of plants.
Rake is used for cleaning the
ground and leveling the topsoil.
Shovel is used in removing trash,
digging loose soil, moving soil from
one place to another and for mixing
soil media.
Sickle is a hand-held agricultural
tool with a variously curved blade
typically used for cutting weeds.
Spade is used for removing trash or
soil, digging canals or ditches and
mixing soil media.
Spading Fork is used for loosening
the soil, digging out root crops and
turning over the materials in a
compost heap.
Sprayers are for spraying
insecticides, foliar fertilizers,
fungicides and herbicides.
Sprinkler is for watering seedlings
and young plants.
Wheel barrow is used for hauling
trash, manures, fertilizers, planting
materials and other equipment.
Water Pail is for hauling water,
manure and fertilizers.
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 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.
• 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.
Rotavator is an implement
mounted to a tractor used for tilling
and pulverizing the soil.
SELECT FARM EQUIPMENT
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.
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 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.
Grass Cutter a device used to cut
the grass, as a lawn mower.
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.
PRE-OPERATIVE CHECK UP OF
FARM TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
 How to Clean Your Tools and
Equipments:
• Knock rust off blades (shovel, spade, hoe,
hedge trimmer) to extend tool life and reduce
effort.
• Keep a large whetstone to hone cutting edges
of garden tools like pruning shears.
• Stabilize tools using a bench vise for better
control while sharpening.
• Apply lubricating oil and maintain a 30-degree
angle when using a whetstone.
•Disassemble frozen pruners, shears, and
loppers to remove rust and dirt.
•Use a wire brush, fine steel wool, or
sandpaper to clean metal surfaces.
•Apply lightweight lubricating oil to joints
and springs to prevent rust.
•Maintain the original factory bevel when
sharpening tools.
•Use a whetstone with oil or water,
moving the blade in a curved motion.
•Secure blades in a vise when using a file
and push it diagonally away from the
body.
•Do not use oil when filing to prevent
clogging.
•Check ordinary plows and wooden harrows
before use, tightening bolts and nuts.
•Lubricate moving parts of disc plows and
harrows.
•Ensure tractors are well-tuned and check oil,
lubricant, fuel, and cooling systems.
FARM INPUTS AND LABOR
FARM INPUTS
• They are defined as products permitted for
use in organic farming. These include
feedstuffs, fertilizers and permitted plant
protection products. The resources that are
used in farm production. T
• 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
LABOR REQUIREMENT FOR PLANT
CARE
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