Types of Equipment, Tools and Materials

Types of Equipment, Tools and Materials

 Farm Implements

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

Plows

- These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by a working animal or a tractor

- specifically used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inters row cultivation. 

- They are used to till areas with a shallower depth than that of the disc plows which are pulled by tractors.

Other materials, tools and equipment

1.  Water pails – for hauling water, manure and fertilizers

2.  Sprinklers – for watering seedlings and young plants

3.  Wheel barrow – for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials and other   equipment

4.  Sprayers – for spraying insecticide, foliar fertilizers, fungicides and herbicide

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Multiple Choice

They are used to till areas with a shallower depth than that of the disc plows which are pulled by tractors.

• water pails

• plow

• sprayer

• sprinkler