GRADE 7-TLE
AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION
Name: ________________________________________________ Score: _______________________
Grade/Section: __________________________________________ Date: _______________________
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET
FARM TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS AND EQUIPMENT
I. Background Information for the Learner
Farm tools, farm implements and farm equipment play very important role in crop production. Their
availability makes work much easier and faster. However, even if one may have the most sophisticated tools,
implements and equipment but does not know how to use them, they are useless. In order to do farm operations
successfully, one must have a good working knowledge of the tools, implements and equipment before using
them.
Hand Tools
Hand tools are usually light and are used without the help of animals or machines. They are being used
in performing farm activities which involve small areas like school garden and home garden.
Classification of hand tools and their corresponding functions
Hand Tools Functions Illustration
1. Digging Tools • Used for digging canals
Pick mattock • Used for removing stumps and
stones
Crowbar • Used for digging up big stones and
tree stumps
• Used for digging big holes
Spade • Used for digging canals and ditches
• Used for removing trash and mixing
soil media
• Shovel • Used for digging loose soil,
removing trash, moving soil from
one place to another, and for mixing
soil media
• Grab hoe • Used for breaking hard topsoil and
pulverizing soil
• Spading fork • Used or loosening the soil, digging
out root crops, and turning over the
materials in a
compost heap
• Light hoe • Used for loosening and leveling soil and
digging out furrows for planting
• Dull Bolo • Used mainly for digging roots and
weeding gardens, approximating the
functions of a garden hoe
•Smallest type of bolo
2. Cutting/Harvesting • Used for cutting planting materials
Tools and for performing other operations
• Knife in horticulture
• Sickle • Used for harvesting of crops, grass
and cutting of other vegetable
matters
• Pruning shears • Used for pruning unnecessary
branches and cutting planting
materials
• Sharp Bolo • Used for cutting tall grasses and
weeds and chopping branches of
trees
• Axe • Used for cutting bigger posts
• Scythe • Used for mowing grass or reaping
crops
3. Measuring tools • Used for measuring the height of
• Meter stick plants.
• Used to measure planting distance
• Ruler • Used for measuring the height of
plants
• Used to measure planting distance
• pH meter • Used to measure the hydrogen-ion
concentration (or pH) indicating its
acidity or alkalinity of the soil
• Weighing scale • Used for weighing vegetable
produce
4. Cultivating tools • Used for balling seedlings.
• Hand trowel • Used for cultivating soil around the
plants
• Hand cultivator • Used for cultivating garden plot by
loosening the soil and removing
young weeds around the plants
• Hand fork • Used for inter-row cultivation
5. Other horticultural • Used for cleaning the ground and
tools levelling the topsoil
• Rake
• Sprinkler • Used for watering seedlings and
young plants
• Water pail • Used for hauling water, manure
and fertilizers
• Wheel barrow • Used for hauling trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting materials and
other equipment
• Knapsack sprayer • Used for spraying pesticides and
liquid fertilizers in wide areas
• Hand Sprayer • Used for spraying in small areas
• Water hose • Used for watering
Farm Implements
Farm Implements are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or mounted to machineries (hand
tractor, tractor) which are usually used in the preparation of land. These are usually made of a special kind of
metals.
Farm Implements and their corresponding function
Implement Function Illustration
• Disc Plow • Used for tilling large
areas, making furrows and
inter row cultivation
• Native Harrow • Used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil
• Rotavator • Used for tilling and
pulverizing the soil
• Trailer • Commonly used for the
transport of goods and
materials
Farm Equipment
Farm equipment 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.
Farm Equipment and their corresponding function
Equipment Function Illustration
• Hand Tractor • Used to pull a plow and
harrow in preparing a large
area of land
• Four Wheel Tractor • Used to pull disc plow
and disc harrow in
preparing much bigger
area of land
• Water Pumps • Used to draw irrigation
water from a source
• Grass Cutter • Used to keep the grass
trim
• Rice Harvester • Used for harvesting rice
grain, wheat grain and
flour
II. Learning Competency with code
Quarter Competency K-12 CG Code
Third Quarter Identify farm tools and equipment according to its use Week 1
III. Activities
Activity 1
Direction: Name the following farm tools, implements and equipment and classify each according to its use.
Classification
Name (Write if it is a tool, implement or
equipment)
Activity 2
Direction: Rearrange the jumbled letter to reveal a word related to farm tools, implements and equipment.
__________1. SGASR RTCTUE- It is used to keep the grass trim.
__________2. IGLHT OEH- It is a hand tool used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows for planting.
__________3. TEANVI ORHRWA- It is used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
__________4. NAHD ROATRCT- It is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.
__________5. ERLRAIT- Commonly used for the transport of goods and materials
__________6. KRIRLSNEP- Used for watering seedlings and young plants.
__________7. VLHSOE- It is used for digging loose soil, removing trash, moving soil from one place to
another and for mixing soil media.
__________8. NIEFK- It is a hand tool used for cutting plant materials and for performing other operations in
horticulture.
__________9. NADH EOWTLR- It is used for cultivating soil around the plants.
__________10. ERKA- It is used for cleaning the ground and levelling the soil.
Activity 3
Scrapbook Making
After learning about this module, you will be compiling pictures of farm tools, implement and equipment
following the procedures below.
Procedure:
1. Collect pictures of various farm tools, implement and equipment. You may clip pictures from the internet, old
books, magazines, newspaper, etc.
2. Cut the pictures and paste them to a long bond paper. Then, write their name and function/s.
3. Compile the sheets in one scrapbook/booklet type and submit them to your teacher.
IV. Reference
TLE Learning Module Agricultural Crop Production Exploratory Grade 7&8
Prepared by:
JESSICA O. LUCENA
TLE Teacher
