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• Farm tools


  Tools used in horticultural operations that make the work easier and faster
• Hand tools


  • Light tools used without the help of animals or machines
  • Used for small areas like school gardens and home gardens
• Bolo


  Used for cutting tall grasses and weeds, and chopping branches of trees
• Pick-mattock


  Used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil, and digging up stones and tree stumps
• Grab-hoe


  Used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil
• Crowbar


  Used for digging big holes and digging out big stones and stumps
• Spade


  Used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil media
• Shovel


  Used for removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to another, and for mixing soil media
• Light hoe


  Used for loosening and leveling soil, and digging out planting furrows
• Rake


  Used for cleaning ground and leveling topsoil
• Hand trowel


  Used for loosening the soil around growing plants and putting small amounts of manure/fertilizer in the soil
• Spading fork


  Used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops, and turning over materials in a compost heap
• Hand cultivator


  Used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around plants
• Hand fork


  Used for inter-row cultivation
• Axe


  Used for cutting bigger size posts
• Pruning shears


  Used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plants
• Knife


  Used for cutting planting materials and performing other operations in horticulture
• Sprayers


  Hand-held agricultural tools
• Sickle


  Hand-held tool with a variously curved blade
• Wheel barrow


  Used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment
• Farm implements


  Accessories pulled by working animals or mounted on machinery (hand tractor, tractor) used in land preparation
• Plows


  Farm implements used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter-row cultivation, pulled by working animals or tractor
• Native wooden plow


  Made of wood with metal parts, pulled by a carabao
• Disc plow


  Designed to work in all types of soil for functions such as soil breaking, raising, turning and mixing, used to open new fields and process stony areas
• Harrows


  Farm implements used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
• Native wooden harrow


  Made of wood with metal teeth, pulled by a carabao
• Disc harrow


  Used to fill the soil where crops are to be planted, and to chop on unwanted weeds or crop residues
• Cultivator


  Implement attached to a tractor used for killing and pulverizing the soil
• Farm equipment


  Machineries used in land preparation, transporting farm inputs and products, requiring a highly skilled operator
• Two-wheel tractor


  Used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land
• Water pumps


  Used to draw irrigation water from a source
• Definition of terms

  • Area - size of surface
  • Interest - payment for using money of lender
  • Fertilizer - material added to soil to support nutrients
  • Germination - development of seed into young plant
  • Labor - work performed by farm workers in exchange for salary
  • Net income - value remaining after expenses deducted from gross income/sales
  • Gross income/sales - equivalent value of product sold
  • Volume - content of a body or space