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## AGRICULTURE ### HAND TOOLS & EQUIPMENT - **Farm tools** - very important in agricultural crop production because they make work easier, make work faster and it saves time and effort - **Farm equipment** - Hand tractor, Four-wheel Tractor and Water Pump - **Crowbar** - an example of a digging to...

## AGRICULTURE ### HAND TOOLS & EQUIPMENT - **Farm tools** - very important in agricultural crop production because they make work easier, make work faster and it saves time and effort - **Farm equipment** - Hand tractor, Four-wheel Tractor and Water Pump - **Crowbar** - an example of a digging tool. - **Bolo** - is used for cutting grasses. - **Hand tools** include Crowbar, Mattock and Shovel - **Mattock** - A tool with one end of its blade flattened and the other pointed at right angles to its handle. - **Shovel** - tool resembles the appearance of a spoon and use for transferring soil? - **Native Plow** - implement being pulled by a working animal to till the land. - **Disc harrow** - An implement mounted to a tractor that is used to pulverize the newly plowed soil. - **Wheelbarrow** - An open container with a single wheel at the front and two handles at the back used to transport things. - **Knife** - tool is used to harvest crops. - **File** - is needed to sharpen a Sickle. - When sharpening a tool, try to maintain the original factory BEVEL or angle. - **Hand Tractor** - It is used to plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land. - **Water pump** - It is used to draw irrigation water from a source. - **list of hand tools** used for tilling the soil - Hand fork, Shovel and Grub Hoe - **Sprayer** - Used for spraying insecticides, foliar fertilizer, fungicides and herbicides. ### FARM INPUT & FARM LABOR - **Fertilizer** - Any matter added to the soil that supports nutrient needed of plants. - **Germination** - Refers to seed development into young plant. - **Seed is for sowing and fertilizer is for CULTIVATING** - **Clear the land area** - In preparing our land for field crops production, which one goes first. ### APPLYING OPERATION - **Hazard** - effect on the environment - **Type** - and it's effect - **Method** - the way of applying - **Mechanism** - the effect of applying