Farm Implements
Farm Implements
Farm Implements
Jayran V. Aguilar
Jay-vee G. Ortega
Shovel is used in removing trash, digging Disc harrow is used for tilling and pulverizing the
loose soil, moving soil from one place to soil made of metal mounted to a tractor.
another and for mixing soil media.
Native plow is pulled by working animals and is made of Rake is used for cleaning the ground and
either a combination of metal and wood and used for tilling leveling the topsoil.
large areas, making furrows and inter-row cultivation.
Disc plow is pulled by tractor and made of metal and Spading fork is used for loosening the soil,
used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter-row digging out root crops and turning over the
cultivation.
materials in a compost heap.
Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash,
soil and digging out furrows for planting. manures, fertilizers, planting materials and
other equipment.
Hand trowel is used for loosening the soil Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a
around the growing plants and putting small variously curved blade typically used for cutting
amount of manure fertilizer in the soil. weeds.
Water pails are used for hauling water, Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the
manure and fertilizers. garden plot by loosening the soil and removing
weeds around the plant.
Sprayers it is for spraying insecticides, foliar Hand fork is used for inter row cultivation.
fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides
Pruning shears is for cutting branches of Knife is for cutting planting materials and for
planting materials and unnecessary branches performing other operations in horticulture
of plants.
Axe is for cutting bigger size post. Sprinklers are used for watering seedlings
and young plants