Agricultural Tools And Their Uses

Agricultural Tools are instruments we use in the farm to aid us in farm work, thereby making it easy. In the olden days farming was a very difficult one.

But today due to the tools being introduced in the world today, It has made farming very easy to all who has in venture into farming, Such Tool include cutlass, wheel barrow hoe, shovel, axe and many more.


Below are List of Agricultural Tools And Their Uses;

SPADE
 Spade is used for different purposes. It can be used for digging of holes and trenches around us, for leveling the ground, for making seedbeds, ridges, mounds and heaps, transplanting of seedlings like palm oil seedlings, turning the soil and the mixing of manures, light weeding in the farm and at home, mixing of cement and concrete for farm and home structures and the digging of foundations when constructing farm and home buildings.

CUTLASS
 It is used for the clearing of bushes around your homes, for the felling of big trees. It is used in harvesting crops like sugar cane, maize, cassava, yam and palm nut fruits. It is also used in the planting of melon during the planting season, cutlass can also be used for the transplanting of seedlings, weeding of crops, both in the digging of shallow holes and used in the trimming and pruning of flowers.

HOE
 The hoes all over the world perform the same function but we are going to differentiate them the West African hoe is made of short curve handle while the Indian hoe has a long handle.

 Hoes are used in tilling the soil, harvesting of crops like cassava, sweet potato and coco yam, weeding between the rows of crops, digging of drains, making trenches and foundation of farm houses, and the making of ridges and mounds.

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WATERING CAN
  This is used to apply water to crops like seedlings in a nursery and vegetables. Some times it is used in applying liquid fertilizers to crops as well as the watering of cement blocks used for the constructions of structures and buildings.

  HAMMER
 The hammer can be used for driving nails into wooden structures whether in the farm or at home, it can also be used to straighten damaged or bent components of either farm implements or our home furnitures. It can also be used in the removal of nails from wood.

 SICKLE
   The sickle has a curved metal blade that is fitted into a short wooden handle. It used in the plucking of fruits. It can also be used to harvest cereals like rice, wheat barley because they possess thin stems. It can also be used in the harvest of grasses.

 HAND TROWEL
  It helps in the transplanting of seedlings, for the application of fertilizer and also for the application of manure to the soil, it helps in loosening vegetable beds, it can also be used for light weeding, sampling or mixing up of soil and digging holes for the planting of seeds.

 HAND FORK
This  is used in mixing manure into the soil, for breaking the surface of the soil, so that air and water, can pass easily and it is also used for the removal of weeds on the seed bed.

 TRACTOR
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort  at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer  or machinery used in agriculture or construction.

Other Tools includes the following:

• Walking Tractor
•  Combine
•  Plough
•  Drag
•  sprayer
•  Tillage planter
•  Fertilizer
•  Packing

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