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• Farm tools


  Usually light and used without the help of animals and machines
• Farm implements


  Accessories pulled by animals or mounted to machines to make work easier
• Farm equipment


  Machineries used in land preparation, need highly skilled operation to use
• Cutting tools

  • Axe
  • Pruning shears
  • Sickle
  • Bolo
• Digging tools

  • Crowbar
  • Pick mattock
  • Grab hoe
  • Spacing fork
• Cultivating tools

  • Shovel
  • Rake
  • Spade
• Hand cultivating tools

  • Hand trowel
  • Hand fork
• Watering tools

  • Sprinkler
  • Water pail
  • Sprayers
  • Hose
• Plow


  Used to till large areas
• Harrows


  Used for tilling and pulverizing the soil
• Hand tractor


  Used to pull a plow or harrow in preparing land area
• Four-wheel tractor


  Used to pull a disc plow and harrow in much bigger size
• Water pump


  Used to draw irrigation water from a source
• Steps in conducting preventive maintenance

  1. Prepare all materials needed to clean and sharpen

  2. Select a safer place to position tool steadily

  3. Dismantle cutting tools like hedge shears before cleaning

  4. Carefully remove rust

  5. Clean tools thoroughly and keep in dry place
• Basic steps in cleaning farm tools

  1. Rinse off mud and soil with garden hose

  2. Scrub away stubborn soil and use paint thinner to remove sap and pitch

  3. Wipe tools dry with rag or towel

  4. Hang tools well

  5. Wipe and spray with oil, put in pail to keep clean and sharp
• Procedures in sharpening and oiling farm tools and equipment

  1. Sharpen tool before and after use

  2. Oil or grease metal parts

  3. Wooden handles should be strong

  4. Hang garden tools

  5. Dry tools after use

  6. Put silica gel

  7. Store tools in original packaging
• Farm inputs


  • Seeds
  • Fertilizer
  • Seedlings
  • Insecticides
• Farm labor requirements


  • Land preparation
  • Plant care
  • Planting
• Land preparation


  1. Plowing using animal

  2. Harrowing using hand tractor

  3. Digging soil using grab hoe
• Planting


  1. Pulling of seeds

  2. Transplanting of seedlings
• Plant care


  • Fertilizer
  • Irrigation
  • Insecticides
• Farm layouts


  • Vegetable layout
  • Orchard planting
• Orchard planting systems

  • Square system
  • Rectangular system
  • Quincunx system
  • Hexagonal system
  • Contour system
• Farm lay-outs


  Preparation of land and creative planting on how to cultivate different types of plants properly
• Axe-for cutting bigger size post
• Pruning shears- for cutting branches of plants
• sickle- for cutting weeds
• Bolo- for cutting tall grases
• Crowbar- dighibg big holes
• pick mattock -for digging canals
• Grab hoe- for breaking topsoil and pulvering soil
• spading fork for loosening soil digging out roots
• shovel- removing trash from one place to another
• Rake- cleaning the ground and leveling the topsoil
• spade- Removing trash on digging canals
• Hand cultivating-cultivating garden plot
• hand trowel -loosening the soil around the growing plants
• Hand fork - inter row cultivation
• sprinkler- for young plant
• water pail -hauling water