Hand Tools

It is 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.

Bolo - It is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping
branches of trees.

Crowbar - It is used for digging big holes and for digging big stones
and stumps.

Pick- mattock - It is used for digging canals, breaking hard top and for
digging up stones and tree stumps.

Grab Hoe - It is used for breaking hard topsoil and for pulverizing soil.

Spade - It is used for removing trash or soil, digging canal or ditches, and
mixing soil media.

Shovel - It is used for removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from
one place to another and for mixing soil media.

Rake - It is

used for cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil.

Spading Fork - It is used for loosening the soil, digging out root
crops, and turning over the materials in a compost heap.

Light Hoe - It is
up
furrows
for

used for loosening and leveling soil and for digging

planting.

Hand Trowel - It is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting
small amount of manure fertilizer.

garden
weeds

Hand Cultivator - It is used for cultivating the

by loosening the soil and removal/removing
around the plant.

plot

Hand Fork - It is used for Inter row cultivation.

Pruning Shears unnecessary

It is used for cutting branches of planting materials and

branches of plant.

Axe - Is used for cutting a bigger size post

Knife - It is used for cutting planting materials and for performing

other operations in horticulture.

Sprinklers - Are

used for for watering seedlings and young plants.

Water Pails - Are used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers.

Sprayers fungicides

Are used to spray

and herbicides.

insecticides,

foliar

fertilizers,

Wheel Barrow - It is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting

materials and other equipment.

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

Plow - is a tool or farm implement used in farming for initial

cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to
loosen or turn the soil.

Harrow - A device
disks or teeth in a row,
smooth or break up the

consisting of a heavy framework having several

which is dragged across ploughed land to
soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds

Rotavator - trademark a type of machine with rotating blades that break

up soil.

FARM TOOLS,
IMPLEMENTS
AND
EQUIPMENT
NAME: JANSEN VIDAA
8 OPTIMISM

MS. JENNYMAY LIWANAG

TEACHER