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Part of Module for T.L.E

Grade Level: 7 Area: ____________
Competency Code:

USE AND MAINTAIN FARM TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

L.O 1: Select Farm Tools

Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of the use of farm tools and equipment
and their maintenance.
Performance Standard: The learner independently uses and maintains farm tools and equipment.

OBJECTIVES:
OBJECTIVES: TheThe learner
learner should
should beto:
be able able to:

1. Identify the farm/hand tools, implement, and equipment.

2. Give the use/s of the uses of each tools, implement and equipment.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Let us determine how much you already

know about farm tools and equipment.
Take this test.

ACTIVITY 1
Below are some of the farm tools and equipment in agricultural crop production. Draw a smiling face if the tool
is familiar to you and a sad face if you are not familiar with the tools. Put a if you know how to use it and if
you don’t.

Remarks
Farm Tools and Equipment I know it I can use it
1. Spade
2. Hand Fork
3. Rake
4.Wheelbarrow
5.Sickle/scythe
6. Bolo
7.Pruning shear
8.Sprayer
9. Bolo
10. Spading fork
11. Hand trowel
12. Sprinkler
13. Grub hoe
14. Pick mattock
15. crowbar

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?

Read Information Sheet 1.1 very well, then find
out how much you can remember and how
much you learned by doing the Self-check 1.1 &
1.2.

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INFORMATION 1.1

Farm tools and equipment play a very important role in every farm practice and operation. Hence,
as a learner you should be able to know, identify, and learn their uses to become a successful farmer someday.
A. Hand Tools
Hand tools are the most simple tools since they are used with your bare hands in performing farm
operation and practices in a small farm or vegetable garden in the backyard or in school.
Sickle/scythe is a hand tool that has a curved blade attached to a short
handle which is used for harvesting grains or cutting grasses.

Grub-hoe is a heavy hoe used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing
soil.

Bolo is a large cutting tool used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and
cutting branches of trees.

Pick mattock is a digging tool with a pointed head at one end and a
transverse blade at the other.
Hand trowel is a gardening tool which is used for loosening the soil,
digging small holes, transplanting seedlings and other similar task.

Hand fork is a gardening tool with sharp tines which makes it easy to
prick into the soil (moist soil) making it suitable for planting,
transplanting, weeding and mixing additives into the soil.
Crowbar is a tool used for digging big holes and for digging out big
stones and stumps.

Hand cultivator is a gardening tool used for cultivating the garden plot by
loosening the soil and removing weeds around the plant.

Spade is a gardening tool with a flat and sharp edge which is used for
digging or loosening soil.

Shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, moving bulky materials from one place
to another, removing trash, and mixing soil media.

Rake is a long-handled tool used for cleaning the ground by gathering the
leaves and for loosening or leveling the soil.

Spading fork is a gardening tool with a handle and strong tines which is
used for loosening the soil, digging out root crops and turning over the
materials in a compost heap.

Dibbler or dibble is a pointed wooden stick used in making holes in the

ground for planting seeds, seedlings or small bulbs.

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Pruning shears is a type of scissors used for basic maintenance tasks like
cutting small branches, twigs and leaves.

Sprinkler is a devise used for watering plants and seedlings.

Sprayer is an equipment used for applying herbicides, pesticides and

fertilizers to agricultural crops.

Wheelbarrow is a hand-propelled vehicle used for hauling trash, manure,

fertilizers, planting materials and other equipment.

Pail or can is a container used for hauling soil, compost, chemical

fertilizer and even water.

Axe is an implement used to split and cut abigger post

B. Farm Implements
These are accessories which are pulled by working animals or mounted machineries (hand tractor, tractor) and
which are usually used in the preparation of land. These are usually made of a special kind of metal.

Plow- These are farm implements either pulled by a working

animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used for tilling large
areas, making furrows and inter row cultivation.

Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal

Native wooden harrow
teeth and pulled by a carabao while the disc harrow is made of
metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows are used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil.

Native wooden harrow

C. Farm Equipment
These are machineries used in crop production. They are used in land preparation and in transporting farm
inputs and products. These equipment need a highly skilled operator to use.

Hand Tractor- is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of
land.

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Four Wheel Tractor- is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing
much bigger area of land.

Water Pump- are used to draw irrigation water from a source.

Thresher- Used to thresh grains, that is, it removes the seeds from stalks
and husks

Corn Dehusker- Used to peel the skin of corn and make the maize removed
from the cob.

Rice Harvester- Used for harvesting rice or wheat

Rice Seeder- Used to plant rice seeds

Miller- A machine used to grind a grain

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HOW MUCH HAVE YOU LEARNED?

SELF-CHECK 1.1

Directions: Identify what is referred to in each of the following statements. Choose your answers from the
box. Write your answer in your quiz notebook.

1. An equipment used for applying herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers to agricultural crops. Axe
2. A large cutting tool used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and cutting branches of trees.
Pruning shears
3. A gardening tool which is used for loosening the soil, digging small holes, transplanting
seedlings and other similar task. Knives
4. A long-handled tool used for cleaning the ground by gathering the leaves and for loosening
or leveling the soil. Wheelbarrow
5. A hand-propelled vehicle used for hauling trash, manure, fertilizers, planting materials and
Sprayer
other equipment.
6. An implement used to split and cut a bigger post Spade
7. A type of scissors used for basic maintenance tasks like cutting small branches, twigs and
leaves. Bolo
8. A tool used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.
crowbar
9. A gardening tool with a flat and sharp edge which is used for digging or loosening soil.
10. Cutting tools used for cutting planting materials, grafting, marcotting, budding, and for Hand trowel
performing other operations in horticulture.
Rake

SELF-CHECK 1.2

Directions: Classify the following whether tools, implement or equipment. Write E if it is equipment, T if it is tools and I if
it is implement. Write your answer in your quiz notebook.

1. rotavator 6. Rice harvester

2. corn dehusker 7. harrow
3. miller 8. Pick-mattock
4. axe 9. Pruning shears
5. hand tractor 10. Water pump

SELF-CHECK 1.3

Directions: Draw at least five tools, implement or equipment and write their uses. Write your answer in your quiz
notebook.

PAG-ASA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Pag-asa, Bansud, Oriental Mindoro