TLE – AFA – AGRI CROP QUARTER 1 MODULE 1: USE FARM TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT MARISSA C. COLLADO Subject Teacher
D IAGNOSTIC TEST
OBJECTIVES Discuss and Identify the different farm tools and equipment. Clean tools and equipment after use in line with farm procedures orderly. Perform pre-operative check-up of farm tools and equipment.
R _ k _ Let the learner guess the word based on the given definition in each number. Used for cleaning the ground and leveling topsoil . 2 . B _ _ o Used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches.
3. H _n_ t_o _ el Used for loosening the soil around the growing plants. 4. S_ov _ _ Used to remove trash, dig loose soil and moving soil from one place to another. 5. S_ck _ _ Tool with a curve blade typically used for cutting weeds.
Let the learner choose their partner. Let them perform the following tasks by answering the guide questions below. What is crop production? Why is crop production essential now a days? ACTIVITY 1
- CROP PRODUCTION It is the process of growing crops for domestic and commercial purposes.
HAND TROWEL DISC PLOW HAND TRACTOR
HAND TOOL FARM IMPLEMENT FARM EQUIPMENT
HAND TOOLS These are usually light and are used without the help of animals or machines.
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 out big stones and stumps.
PICK MATTOCK It is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and tree stumps.
GRAB HOE It is used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.
SPADE It is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches and mixing soil media.
SHOVEL It is used in 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 used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting.
HAND TROWEL It is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.
HAND CULTIVATOR It is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and removing weeds around the plant.
HAND FORK It is used for inter-row cultivation.
PRUNING SHEARS These are used for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary branches of plan.
AXE It is used for cutting bigger size post.
KNIFE It is used for cutting planting materials.
SPINKLER It is used for watering seedlings and young plants.
WATER PAIL It is used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers.
SPRAYER It is used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides.
WHEELBARROW 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.
HAND TOOLS
FARM IMPLEMENT
These are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries which are usually in preparation of land FARM IMPLEMENT
PLOWS It is used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter row cultivation. NATIVE PLOW DISC PLOW
HARROW It is used for tilling and pulverizing the soil. NATIVE WOODEN HARROW DISC HARROW
ROTAVATOR An implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
FARM EQUIPMENT
These are machineries used in crop production. They are used in land preparation and in transporting farm inputs and products. FARM EQUIPMENT
HAND TRACTOR It is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.
FOUR-WHEEL TRACTOR It is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of land.
WATER PUMP This is used to draw irrigation water from a source.
THRESHER It is a farm machine for separating wheat, peas, soybeans, and other small grain and seed crops from their chaff and straw.
CORN DEHUSKER It is a machine that removes the thin outer covering (husks) from an ear of corn.
RICE HARVESTER It is rather small, lightweight, and special type of combine harvester developed for harvesting rice on wet/flooded paddy fields.
It is a machine or device for cutting grass (as a lawn mower or a scythe). GRASS CUTTER
RICE MILLER It is an agricultural machine used to automate the process of removing the chaff of grains of rice.
RICE SEEDER It is any of various apparatus for sowing seeds in the ground, ranging from simple devices that deposit seed evenly over a plot of land to complex machines that prepare a hole in the earth, insert a seed or seeds at the proper depth, and cover the hole again.
HOW CLEAN YOUR TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 1. Rust off the blade of the tools and implement. 2. Sharpen the blade of tools and implement. 3. Apply a lubricating oil to the end of the tool and carefully begin to work the stone over the blade. 4. Clean accumulated rust and dirt off all metal surface with a wire brush. 5. Remove stubborn rust with fine steel wool. 6. Lubricate fresh oil into joints of most garden tools.