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Module on Use Farm Tools and Equipment.
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What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
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What is It This section provides a brief discussion
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What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank
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What I Can Do This section provides an activity which
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 MODULE
1
Use Farm Tools and Equipment

What I Need to Know

Different Hand tools according to their use.
1. Identify the farm tools
2. Appropriate tools are safely used according to its functions.
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What Is It
FARM TOOLS IN AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION

Hand Tools:

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.

Pick-mattock is used for digging canals,

breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones
and tree stumps.

Grab-hoe is used for breaking hard topsoil and

pulverizing soil.

Spade is used for removing trash or soil,

digging canals or ditches and mixing soil
media.

Shovel is used in removing trash, digging

loose soil, moving soil from one place to
another and for mixing soil media.
Rake is used for cleaning the ground and
leveling the topsoil.

Spading fork is used for loosening the soil,

digging out root crops and turning over the
materials in a compost heap.

Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling

soil and digging out furrows for planting

Hand trowel is used for loosening the soil

around the growing plants and putting small
amount of manure fertilizer in the 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.

Pruning shears is for cutting branches of

planting materials and unnecessary branches
of plants.

Axe is for cutting bigger size post.

Knife is for cutting planting materials and for
performing other operations in horticulture

Sprinklers – for watering seedlings and young

plants

Water pails – for hauling water, manure and

fertilizers

Sprayers are for spraying insecticides,

foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides

Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash,

manures, fertilizers, planting materials and
other equipment

Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a

variously curved blade typically used for cutting
weeds.
 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 - These 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.

Native Plow Disc Plow

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

What I Have Learned

A. Directions: Answer the following questions.

1. What is the role of farm tools in agricultural crop production?

2. What hand tools you are going to use to water and haul the plants?

a.
b.
c.

3. What is Farm Implement?

What I Can Do
Activity 1

B. What are the most common tools in Agri-crop production? Identify each
tool and explain your answer.
Ex.
1.Bolo- it is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds
and chopping branches of trees.

1. ____________________________
2. ____________________________
3. ____________________________
4. ____________________________
5. ____________________________
6. ____________________________
7. ____________________________
8. ____________________________
9. ____________________________
10. ___________________________

Activity 2

Directions: Read the article and answer the questions below.

Tools and techniques

The first significant revolution in Chinese agricultural technology occurred

when iron agricultural implements became available to the Chinese
peasantry. The earliest iron plow found in northern Henan dates from
the Warring States period (475–221 BCE) and is a flat V-shaped iron piece
that must have been mounted on wooden blades and handles. It was small,
and there is no evidence that draft animals were used. Cattle-drawn plows
do not appear until the 1st century BCE. Several improvements
and innovations, such as the three-shared plow, the louli (plow-and-
sow) implement, and the harrow, were developed subsequently. By the end
of the Song dynasty in 1279, Chinese agricultural engineering had reached a
high state of development.

The common farmers continued to use these early medieval techniques into
modern times. Their unfenced fields were cultivated by a wooden plow, with
or without a cast-iron share and usually drawn by a water buffalo.
Harvesting was by sickle or billhook (a cutting tool consisting of a blade with
a hooked point fitted with a handle). Sheaves carried from the field were
slung at the ends of a pole across an individual’s shoulders. The grain was
threshed by beating on a frame of slats or by flails on the ground.
Winnowing was accomplished by tossing the grain in the wind. Rice was
husked by hand pounding in a mortar or with a hand-turned mill. Irrigation
techniques varied. The most common perhaps was a wooden, square-paddle
chain pump with a radial treadle operated by foot. Fields were drained by
open ditches and diking. Night soil, oil cakes, and ash fertilized the soil.

Directions: write your answer on the space provided.

1. What are the agricultural implement during the end of Song Dynasty?
Described each tool.

2. What technique does the farmer continue to use from early medieval
to modern time? Give at least 3.

3. In your own opinion is it possible to use the old and traditional farm
implements that the Chinese people use during Song Dynasty in this
modern days? Why?
Activity 3

Direction: Complete the sentences base from our lesson on Farm tools in
agricultural Crop Productions.

When I read/did ____________________________________________________________

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I begun to understand ________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________
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___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Therefore, I will _____________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________
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Assessment

I. Fill in the Blank

Direction: choose the correct answer on the box. Write eligibly.

Plows Farm Implements Disc harrow

Native Plow Rotavator Hand cultivator
Disc Plow Native wooden harrow Hand Trowel
Harrow

_____________1. Farm implements either pulled by a working animal or a

tractor and specifically used for tilling large areas.

______________2. An accessory which are being pulled by working animals or

mounted to
machineries which is used in preparation of land.

______________3. A large farming implement with one or more blades drawn

by a tractor.

______________4. A farm implement with sharp edge that is pulled by working

animals to prepare the land.

______________5. used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil
and removing
weeds around the plant.

_____________6. used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and
putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.

_____________7. It is used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.

_____________8. Farm implement that is made of wood with a metal teeth and
pulled by a
Carabao.
_____________9. Another farm implement made of metal mounted to a tractor.
_____________10. an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.
Test II Matching type:
______1. Sprinkler A. used for spraying insecticides, foliar
fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides
______2. Knife B. used for hauling water, manure and
fertilizers
______3. Hand Fork C. used for watering seedlings
______4. Bolo D. used for cutting planting materials
______5. Rake E. used for leveling the top soil
______6. Shovel F. used for removing trash, digging
loose soil, moving soil from one
place to another and for mixing soil
media
______7. Pruning Shear G. used for cutting bigger size post
______8. Sprayer H. used for cutting branches of
planting materials and unnecessary
branches of plants
______9. Pail I. used for inter row cultivation
______10. Axe J. used for cutting tall grasses and
weeds and chopping branches of
trees

References:
Asuncion,Ramon G,et.al, Agricultural Arts
Phipps, McColly, Scranton, & Cook, Mechanics Textbook
Tony Biggs, Growing Vegetables
Jef Van Haunte-Lyds Quileste, Growing Rich, Tasty Veggies in Harmony
with Nature
http://www.antiquefarmtools.info
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pdfs/01-111b
http://www.ebc.com.au