Several simple farm tools are used for various purposes at different stages of farming, from soil preparation to planting and harvesting. These are handy tools made up of metals and wooden handles primarily used by peasant farmers. They make the work of farmers easier and faster by assisting the hands in applying force in farm operations.
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Farm Tools and Uses
These tools are used to cultivate arable crops, fruit, vegetables, and flowers. They are:
Cutlasses: They are used for pre-planting activities like cutting down and clearing grasses, bushes, and trees.
Hoes: They are horticultural hand tools used to shape soil, remove weeds, clear soil, and harvest root crops.
Rakes: They are used for scooping, gathering, or levelling materials, such as soil, mulch, or leaves.
Hand forks: are used for cultivating the soil, light weeding, and transplanting seedlings.
Garden forks: are simple farm tools used to loosen the soil top for transplanting.
Shears: are used to cut up dead wood or parts in a plant.
Pick axe: Used for lifting items necessary in the farming processes.
Spades: are simple farm tools used for turning over the soil and supporting plant seedlings.
Hand trowel: It is used for transplanting seedlings from the nursery bed to the main site in planting operations.
Shovel: It is used for making garden paths, levelling the ground, and removing Stones or rubbish from the pathway
Secateurs: It is used to cut and trim unwanted branches, weeds, and stems in the garden.
Watering can: It is used to simply irrigate crops in the dry season to prevent them from wilting and dying.
Harvesting sickle: It is used for harvesting vegetables and cereal crops
Head pan: It is a simple farm tool used for transplanting seedlings from the nursery bed to the main site, carrying and mixing manure and fertilizers, and carrying farm produce.
Wheelbarrow: It is used to move waste materials, transportation of fertilizers, carry toolboxes, etc.
Axe: It is used for felling of trees, splitting of logs, and dressing of logs for timber conversion
Pruning saw: It is used for trimming shrubs and trees
Budding knife: It creates a budding or graft union in plants.
Budizzor: It is used on farm animals such as cattle and sheep to crush the spermatic cord and stop the blood supply to the testes
Sprayers: It is one of the simple farm tools used for spraying insecticides.
