FARM IMPLEMENTS example an their uses .pptx

different types of farm implements with their uses

1. FARM IMPLEMENTS

2. FARM IMPLEMENTS These are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor)which are usually in the used in the preparation of land. Usually made of a special kind of metal

3. Examples of Farm Implements 1.Plows. These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by a working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inters row cultivation. Plows pulled by working animals are made of either a combination of metal or 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.

4. Native Plow Disc Plow

5. Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal tooth and pulled by a carabao while the disc harrow is a metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.

6. Native wooden harrow Disc harrow

7. Rotavator. The rotavator is an implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil

8. FARM EQUIPMENT These are machineries used in horticultural and agronomical operations especially in vegetable, rice, corn and cereal production. They are used in different stages of crop production starting from land preparation up to planting and harvesting and in transporting farm inputs and products.

9. Handtractors -are used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land. They are also used to draw trailers to transport materials, inputs and harvests. It is now referred to as the farmer‘s main drawing equipment, although in some places carabao is still used .

10. Four wheel tractor - is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow and other farm implements in preparing much bigger area of land. It is also used to draw trailers in transporting bigger bulk of materials, inputs and harvests.

11. Water pumps are used to draw irrigation water from a source. It made crop production possible in areas without irrigation system .

12. Sprayers - are used to apply chemicals to control pests. Although the knapsack sprayer is still used for easy handling, the power sprayer is being used for faster and more convenient chemical applications. It is also used to clean the other farm equipment .

13. Other Farm Equipment This is a combined harvester and thresher used to harvest and thresh rice at the same time. It could harvest and thresh a maximum of three hectares in a day. Clean grains were accumulated in the compartment that could be transported to a nearby dry area for ease in putting into sacks .

14. This is a rice seeder, used to directly plant seeds of rice in dry soil method

15. This is a corn thresher, used to thresh harvested mature corn .

16. This is a rice thresher, used to thresh harvested rice.

17. This is a mechanical grain drier, used to dry harvested grains to attain desirable moisture content to prevent spoilage