Lesson 1 Tle Seven Use of Farm Tools.

Agriculture
Agriculture
The business of agriculture is an indispensable one

because of its importance to mankind.
Agriculture pertains to the cultivation of land and

breeding of animals and plants in order to provide the
basic needs of people and promote sustainability and
self-sufficiency.
Crop Production pertains to the discipline that
deals with the cultivation of farmland and
propagation of edible crops
An entrepreneur dealing with crop production
should be able to know the different crops
suitable for planting. We wouldn’t want to waste
any money or resources that is why it is important
for one to capitalize on the most profitable crop.
The country’s main agricultural crops are rice,

corn, coconut, sugarcane, bananas, pineapple,
coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and abaca (a
banana-like plant).
Secondary crops include peanut, cassava,

camote (a type of root crop), garlic, onion,
cabbage, eggplant, calamansi (a variety of
lemon), rubber, and cotton.
How do I Look?
1. How is Picture A differ from Picture B?

2. What tools are commonly used to make Picture A
become Picture B?
Lesson 1:
Select And Use

of Farm Tools
and Equipments
What do you think is the
importance of farm tools and
equipment in crop production?
Farm tools, implements, and
equipment play very important
role in agricultural crop
production. They are
necessary in order for one to
perform growing and caring of
plants. Their availability makes
the work much easier and
faster.
3 CATEGORIES OF FARM
OBJECTS
Farm Farm
Implements Farm Tools
Equipment
- These are machineries
used in crop production.
They are used in land
preparation and in
transporting farm inputs and
Farm products. These equipment
Equipment
need a highly skilled
operator to use.
-Accessories pulled by
animals or mounted to
Farm
machineries to make
Implements the work easier.
Objects
- that are
usually light and are
used without the help
Farm Tools of animals and
machines
Digging Tools
Cutting/Harvesting Classification
of
Measuring tools Hand/Farm Tools
Cultivating tools
1. Digging tools
- are used to create big holes, creating canals
and furrows for planting, also to mix soil
media.
❑Crowbar
❑ pick-mattock,
❑spade,
❑Shovel
❑hand trowel,
❑Dull bolo
❑Grab and Light hoe
2. Cultivating Tools
To pulverize the soil, cleaning and leveling the soil,
and loosening the soil.
❑ rake,
❑ hand cultivator
❑ hand fork,
3. Cutting tools
- used to remove tall grasses and weeds as well as
chopping of unnecessary branches of plants and
trees.
❑ Sharp Bolo
❑ pruning shears,
❑ axe
❑ Sickle
❑ Knife
❑ Scythe
SW 4
Scenario Analysis.
A-Read the scenarios and provide the necessary tool
to accomplish the task.
B-Matching Type
Knapsack sprayer Pruning Shears Rake Water Pump
Hand Tractor Tractor Harrow

1. John needs to apply insecticide in his garden so that the worms infesting
his vegetables will be driven away. What tool can best help him?
2. Maria does routine leveling of soil in his calamansi garden. What tool can
help him level the top soil?
3. Courtney noticed the discolored leaves in her eggplants. This is an
indicator that the plant has a disease. What tool can she use to remove the
discolored leaves? .
4. Marvin is scheduled to maintain the equipment used for irrigation. What
equipment is used in irrigation?
5. Enzo will prepare the soil in his vast farm. What equipment is ridden like a
vehicle and is used to pull farm implement?
1. Used for digging canals and removing stumps and stones a. Spading Fork
2. Used or loosening the soil, digging out root crops, and

turning over the materials in a compost heap.
3. Used for loosening and levelling soil and digging out

furrows for planting b. Pick-mattock
4. Used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil

and removing weeds around the plant.
5. Used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and
putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil
c. Light Hoe
d. Hand trowel
e. Hand cultivator
1. Digging tools
- are used to create big holes, creating canals
and furrows for planting, also to mix soil
media.
❑Crowbar
❑ pick-mattock,
❑spade,
❑Shovel
❑hand trowel,
❑Dull bolo
❑Grab and Light hoe
Crowbar
• Used for digging up big stones and tree stumps
• Used for digging big holes
Pick-mattock
• Used for digging canals
• Used for removing stumps and stones
Spade
• Used for digging canals and ditches
• Used for removing trash and mixing soil
media
Shovel
Used for digging loose soil, removing
trash, moving soil from one place to
another, and for mixing soil media
Grab Hoe
• Used for breaking hard topsoil and
pulverizing soil
Light Hoe
• Used for loosening and levelling soil and
digging out furrows for planting
Spading Fork
• Used or loosening the soil, digging out
root crops, and turning over the materials
in a compost heap.
Dull Bolo
• Used mainly for digging roots and weeding
gardens, approximating the functions of a
garden hoe
• Smallest type of bolo
Hand Trowel is used for loosening the
soil around the growing plants and
putting small amount of manure fertilizer
in the soil.
Cutting tools
- used to remove tall grasses and weeds as well as
chopping of unnecessary branches of plants and
trees.
❑ Bolo
❑ pruning shears,
❑ axe
❑ Sickle
❑ Knife
❑ Scythe
Sharp Bolo
Used for cutting tall grasses and weeds
and chopping branches of trees
Axe
Used for cutting bigger size post.
Pruning shears
is for cutting branches of planting
materials and unnecessary
branches of plants.
Sickle is a hand-held agricultural

tool with a variously curved blade
typically used for cutting weeds.
Scythe
Used for mowing grass or reaping
crops.
Knife
Used for cutting planting materials
and for performing other operations
in horticulture
Cultivating Tools
To pulverize the soil, cleaning and leveling
the soil, and loosening the soil.
❑rake,
❑hand cultivator
❑ hand fork,
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.
Rake is used for cleaning the
ground and leveling the topsoil.
Measuring Tools
Other Farm Tools
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
❑ Harrow
❑ Rotavator
❑ Trailer
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.
2. 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.
3. Rotavator.
The rotavator is an implement mounted to a tractor used for
tilling and pulverizing the soil
4. Trailer
commonly used for the
transport of goods and materials
COMMON FARM EQUIPMENT
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 pumps are used to draw irrigation water from a source.
Thresher Corn Dehusker Rice Harvester
They are used to :

❑ To remove the rice shells from the grain.
❑ to remove the skin of the corn cob
❑ to separate the rice grains from the stem.
Grass Cutter Rice seeder Miller
They are used to:

❑ to remove tall grasses and weeds that hinders to the fast growth of
crops.
❑ to plant rice seedlings faster in desired distances from one another.
❑ to grind a grain to make flour.
THANK YOU!
SW 1
1. _______________ pertains to the cultivation of land and breeding of

animals and plants in order to provide the basic needs of people
and promote sustainability and self-sufficiency.
2. _______________pertains to the discipline that deals with the

cultivation of farmland and propagation of edible crops
3-5 Give 3 secondary agricultural crops of the country.
6-10 Give 5 main agricultural crops of the country.

SW 2 -Directions: Categorize the following farm objects. Tell whether the object
belongs to Farm tools, implements, and equipment.
Farm tools, equipment.

implements,
implements, Farm tools, equipment.

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Agriculture

The business of agriculture is an indispensable one

Agriculture pertains to the cultivation of land and

The country’s main agricultural crops are rice,

Secondary crops include peanut, cassava,

1. How is Picture A differ from Picture B?

Select And Use

Hand Tractor Tractor Harrow

2. Used or loosening the soil, digging out root crops, and

3. Used for loosening and levelling soil and digging out

4. Used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil

Sickle is a hand-held agricultural

They are used to :

They are used to:

1. _______________ pertains to the cultivation of land and breeding of

2. _______________pertains to the discipline that deals with the

3-5 Give 3 secondary agricultural crops of the country.

6-10 Give 5 main agricultural crops of the country.

Farm tools, equipment.

implements, Farm tools, equipment.

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