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TLE
Quarter 1 – Module 6:
Agricultural Crop Production
T L E– Grade 10
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 6: Agricultural Crop Production
First Edition, 2020

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TLE
Quarter 1 – Module 6:
Agricultural Crop Production
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the (Technology Livelihood Education Grade 10) Alternative

Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on (Prepare Materials, Tools and Equipment
for Agronomic Crop Production) !

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Technology Livelihood Education 10 Alternative Delivery

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 What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is

here to help you master the nature of Agricultural Crop Production. The
scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning
situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of
students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the
course. But the order in which you read them can be changed to correspond
with the textbook you are now using.

Content Standard
The learner demonstrates an understanding of concepts, underlying
theories and principles in the preparation of materials, tools and equipment
in agronomic crop production.

Performance Standard

The learner prepares farm tools and equipment for agronomic crop
production based on required task.

Learning Competency TLE_AFAC9-12WC-Ia-e-1

LO 1. Prepare materials, tools and equipment for agronomic crop work

1.1. Identify the required materials, tools and equipment according
to lists provided and/or authority instruction

1.2. Check materials, tools and equipment for sufficient quantity,

faults/defects based on manufacturer’s lists and pre-operating
procedures

The module has one lesson

• Lesson 1 – Prepare materials, tools and equipment for agronomic crop
work

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After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Identify the required materials, tools and equipment for
agronomic crop work and their function;
2. Explain the pre-operating procedures in cleaning tools; and
3. Perform agronomic crop work with the use of some tools and
materials

What I Know

Direction: Read and understand the questions below. Choose the letter of the
best answer and write it on your notebook

1. What equipment in rice production is used to draw water from a

source?
A. Sprayer
B. Sprinkler
C. Water pail
D. Water pump

2. What tool does NOT belong to the group?

A. Bolo
B. Crowbar
C. Mattock
D. Shovel

3. Which tool is used for cleaning the levees?

A. Bolo
B. Crowbar
C. Mattock
D. Shovel
4. Which of the following is a digging tool?
A. Bolo
B. Crowbar
C. Shovel
D. Pruning shear
5. Farm tools are needed in rice production operations because they
A. make work easier.
B. make work faster.
C. save time and effort.
D. make work faster, easier and economical.

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6. Why do we need to conduct pre-operative check up of tools,
Implements, and equipment before starting to work?
A. To check if the tools are serviceable
B. To determine the functionality of tools and implements
C. To repair defective tools
D. All of the above
7 .The best implement to level the field is
A. harrow.
B. harvester.
C. rotary tiller.
D. wood plow.
8. A tool with one end of its blade flattened and the other pointed at right angles to
its handle is a ________________.
A. mattock
B. crowbar
C. bolo
D. spade

9. An open container with a single wheel at the front and two handles at the back
used to transport things
A. Hand tractor
B. Tractor
C. Basket
D. Wheel barrow

10. Which of the following tools is used to harvest crops?

A. Knife
B. Plow
C. Spade
D. Basket

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Lesson Prepare Materials, Tools and
Equipment for Agronomic
1 Crop Work

What’s In

Direction: Draw 5 tools and 2 equipment used in agronomic crop work and
indicate the functions. Use long bond paper and fasten it in a folder. Be guided
with the given rubrics below.

Rubric

Possible Point Self Teacher

Drawing looks similar to what

was observed and/or taught. 20

Drawing includes many

details (measurements, shapes,
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colors, size

Drawing is accurately labelled

by its functions. 20

Drawing has the title that

helps explain the content. 20

Drawing is legible and large

enough to see all details. 20

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 What’s New

Directions: Give at least five reasons why it is very important to do pre –

operational check-up of equipment about the conditions of the parts needed to be
maintained. Write your answers in your activity notebook.

What is It

Farm Tools and Equipment for Agronomic

Farm tools, implements, and equipment play very important role in

agronomic crop work operations. Their availability makes the work much easier
and faster. However, even if one may have the most sophisticated tools and
implements, but does not know how to use them, they are useless. In order to do
horticultural 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.

Bolo

It is used for cutting tall grasses and weeds and chopping branches of tree

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 Crowbar

It is used for digging big holes and for digging out big stones and stumps.

Pick-mattock
It is used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up stones and
tree stumps

Spade

It is used for removing trash or soil, digging canals or ditches, and mixing soil
media

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 Shovel

It is used in removing trash, digging loose soil, moving soil from one place to
another and for mixing soil media.

Rake is used for cleaning ground and leveling topsoil

Spading Fork is used for loosening the soil, digging out crops and turning over
the materials in a compost heap

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 Light hoe is used for loosening and leveling soil and digging out furrows
for planting.

Hand Trowel is used for loosening the soil around the growing plants and putting
small amount of manure fertilizer in the soil.

Hand cultivator is used for cultivating the garden plot by loosening the soil and
removing weeds around the plant.

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 Hand fork is used for inter row cultivation

Pruning shears is for cutting branches of planting materials and unnecessary

branches of plants.

Axe is for cutting bigger size posts.

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Knife is for cutting planting materials and for performing other operations in
horticulture.

Sprinklers are used for watering seedlings and young plants.

Water pails are used for hauling water, manure and fetilizers.

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Sprayers is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically
used for cutting weeds

Wheel barrow is used for hauling trash, manures, fertilizers, planting materials
and other equipment.

Sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically

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Farm Implements

These are accessories which are being pulled by working animals or

mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor) which are usually used in
preparation of land. These are usually made of special kind of metal
Plows. These are farm implements used in horticultural operations either pulled by
a working animal or a tractor. The plow is specifically used for tilling large areas,
making furrows and inter-row cultivation. Plows pulled by working animals are
made of either a combination of metal and wood or pure metal. They are used to til
areas with a shallower depth than that of the disc plows which are pulled by
tractors

Native Plow Disc Plow

Harrow. The native wooden harrow is made of wood with a metal teeth and pulled
by a carabao while the disc harrow is made of metal mounted to a tractor. Harrows
are used for tilling and pulverizing the soil

Native wooden harrow Disc harrow

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Rotavator. The rotavator is an implement attached to a tractor and used for tilling
and pulverizing the soil

Select and Operate Farm Equipment

Common Farm Equipment

These are machineries used in horticultural operations especially in

vegetable production. They are used in land preparation and in transporting farm
inputs and products. This equipment needs a highly skilled operator to use.

Hand tractor is used to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.

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Four wheel tractor is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much
bigger area of land

Water pumps are used to draw irrigation water from a source.

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 Perform Preventive Maintenance

PRE-OPERATIVE CHECK UP OF FARM TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS

AND EQUIPMENTS
Imagine that the long, hot summer vacation has finally come to an end and
it‘s the beginning of the school year and you are ready to start working your
vegetable gardens. But before that let us check first our tools, implements and
equipment you are going to use. Armed with your working clothes and personal
protective equipment (PPE). Proceed to the shop to retrieve your tools so that you
can start clearing away the last remnants of summer and begin breaking the soil
for a new year. Imagine your frustration as you start pulling out all of your tools to
see that they are covered with rust and dirt that has hardened and crusty globs of
oil that have collected dust last vacation. It seems that you are going to spend more
time cleaning and repairing tools on this nice day than you will actually use them.

How to Clean Your Garden Tools:

Let‘s start with the basics. Your shovel, spade, hoe, or even the blades on a
hedge trimmer will be a lot easier to use if you take a few minutes to knock some of
the rust off the blade. Not only will this extend the life of the tool, but also it will
cut through the soil better, and thus require less effort to use, if it has a nice sharp
blade. It is a good idea to keep a large whetstone in your shop. A whetstone is an
ideal tool to use to keep all of the cutting edges of your garden tools honed. It will
work well on your shovel, as well as many other common garden tools.

The best way to use the stone is to find a way to stabilize the tool that you
want to work on. A bench vise is ideal. You will be able to clamp the tool into place
at an angle, so you can work on it. Clamping the garden tool into place with a vise
frees both of your hands to use the whetstone and gives you more control over
what you are doing.

Apply a little lubricating oil to the end of the tool and carefully begin to work
the stone over the blade. Maintain a 30-degree angle between the stone and the
blade to form the ideal cutting edge for your tool. Not only will the edge become
sharper, but you will also be removing any pitting and rust that has formed at the
edge of your tool‘s blade.

In instances where the moving parts of your garden tools (such as with of
any new pruners, shears, and loppers) have frozen in place, like springs and pivot
joints, you should disassemble them first carefully break free any rust or dirt that
may keep the tool from functioning properly. Clean accumulated rust and dirt off
all metal surfaces with a wire brush. Remove stubborn rust from small tools with
fine steel wool. Using an old toothbrush with some lightweight lubricating oil is a
great way to work fresh oil into the joints of most garden tools. Not only will this
fresh oil helps your tool to work as it was intended, but it will also prevent the
formation of rust. Use medium-grit sandpaper to remove rust on larger tools such
as shovels, spades, and hoes.

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 Once your tools are cleaned, they're ready to be sharpened. When
sharpening, try to maintain the original factory bevel or angle. For pruners, use a
whetstone because it produces a very sharp cutting edge. Depending on the type of
whetstone, apply a few drops of oil or water to the stone. With the bevelled side of
the blade against the stone, rub the sharp edge of the blade toward the stone in a
curved motion, as if you were trying to shave off a thin slice from the stone.

When working with a file, stabilize the blades in a vise or against a solid
surface such as a work bench to avoid injury and ensure an even stroke. Always
push the file across the blade in a motion away from your body. Move the file
diagonally, so that its cutting teeth are biting into the metal on the tool. When
sharpening with a file, do not use oil; metal filings will accumulate and clog the
file's serrations.

Farm implements like ordinary plow and wooden harrow should be checked
thoroughly before use. Loosened bolts and nuts should be tightened firmly. Disc
plow and harrow should also be lubricated on their moving parts like bearings.
Tractors should be tuned-up very well by and skilled operator. Checking on their
oil, lubricant, fuel and cooling system. Tools that are worn out should be separated
and be fixed immediately to avoid accident.

What’s More

Direction: Search in the internet of three farm equipments and find out how it is
used. Illustrate the step by step procedure of how each equipment is used, in
order to know how to operate these properly. Make a conclusion about the activity.
Write it in your activity notebook.

Steps:
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

Conclusion:
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________.

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 What I Have Learned

Write your personal insight of what you have learned from the lesson. Answer the
question below. Write your answer in your activity notebook

1. What are the advantages of using tools and equipments when doing
agronomic crop work?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
____

2. Why is it important to clean your garden tools?

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
.

Rubric

Above Meets Approaching Below

Expectations Expectations Expectations Expectations

4 3 2 1

Reflective The reflection The reflection The reflection The reflection

Thinking Explains the Explains the Attempts to Does not
address the
Student’s own Student’s Demonstrate
student’s
thinking about
Thinking and Thinking thinking
his/her own
learning about learning and/or
learning
processes, as learning
processes. But is vague
well as
and/or
Implications unclear about
for future the personal
learning. learning
process.

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 Analysis The reflection The reflection The reflection The reflection
does not move
Is an in-depth Is an analysis Attempts to
beyond a
Analysis of the Of the learning Analyze the
descriptive of
learning
Experience Learning the learning
Experiences, experience.
And the value Experience but
the value of
the value
the derived Of the derived
Of the learning
Learning to Learning to
to the student
self or others, self or others
or others is
and the
vague and/or
enhancement
unclear.
Of the
student’s
appreciation

For the
discipline

Making The reflection The reflection The reflection The reflection

Connections
Articulates Articulates attempts to Does not
Articulates articulate any
Multiple Connections
connection to
Connections
Connections Between this other learning
Between this or experiences
Between this Learning
Learning
Learning Experience
Experience
Experience And content
and content And content
From other
From other From other
Courses,past
Courses,past Courses,past
Learning
Learning, life Learning
Experiences,
Experiences Experiences,
And/or future
and/or or personal
goal
goals , but the
Future goals.
connection is
vague and/or
unclear.

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 What I Can Do

From the lesson How to Clean your Garden Tools, you are ask to clean your shovel
at home.

Directions: Follow the steps on how to clean your garden tools. Let somebody in
your family take a picture while you are doing the steps and send it to my
messenger account. After doing the activity make a reflection. Write it in your
activity notebook.
. Rubric for Student Reflections

Above Meets Approaching Below

Expectations Expectations Expectations Expectations

4 3 2 1

The reflection The reflection The reflection The reflection

explains the explains the attempts to does not
student’s own student’s demonstrate address the
thinking and thinking about thinking about student’s
learning his/her own learning but is thinking
Reflective processes, as learning vague and/or and/or
Thinking well as processes. unclear about learning
implications the personal
for future learning
learning. process..

The reflection The reflection The reflection The reflection

is an in-depth is an analysis attempts to does not move
analysis of the of the learning analyze the beyond a
learning experience and learning description of
experience, the the value of experience but the learning
value of the the derived the value of experience.
derived learning to self the learning to
learning to self or others. the student or
Analysis or others, and others is vague
the and/or
enhancement unclear.
of the
student’s
appreciation
for the
discipline.

The reflection The reflection The reflection The reflection

articulates articulates attempts to does not
Making
multiple connections articulate articulate any

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Connections connections between this connections connection to
between this learning between this other learning
learning experience and learning or experiences.
experience and content from experience and
content from other courses, content from
other courses, past learning other courses,
past learning, experiences, past learning
life and/or future experiences, or
experiences goals. personal goals,
and/or future but the
goals. connection is
vague and/or
unclear.

Assessment

Direction: Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the
chosen letter on your quiz notebook.

1.These are machineries used in horticultural operations especially in vegetable

production.

a. common farm equipment b. equipment c. tool d. machineries

2. An implement attached to a tractor and used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
a. rotavator b. hand tractor c. plow d.tractor
3. Used to draw irrigation water from a source.
a. sprinkler b. water pumps c. irrigation d. a&c

4 . Used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger area of land.

a. four wheel tractor b. two wheel tractor c. tractor d.five wheel tractor
5. Used for breaking hard topsoil and pulverizing soil.

a. hand trowel b. light hoe c. Ppuning shears d. grab hoe

6. Made of wood with a metal teeth and pulled by a carabao.

a. harrow b. metal harrow c. wooden harrow d. native wooden

harrow

7. Made of metal mounted to a tractor.

a. metal harrow b. wooden harrow c. disc harrow d.harrow

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8. A hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for
cutting weeds.
a. container b. bottle c. Sprayer d. b&c

9. A hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically

a. bolo b.sickle c. handfork d. pick-mattock

10. Axe is for cutting bigger size post.

a. axe b. knife c. bolo d. Sickle

Additional Activities

Direction:
Make a plot in your backyard using any available gardening tools at
home. Ask your parents to take video at least at 15 minutes and send it in
my messenger account that I gave you .Reminders: Please use proper
personal protective equipment and with the supervision of your
guardian/parent.

RUBRICS
Score
Criteria 20 10 5

Proper handling of farm tools

Complete wearing of Personal Protective
Equipment

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References
Padigos, Cobe Jay, SlideShare, June 29, 2015, https://www.slideshare.net/cobejaypadigos/agri-crop-
grade-10-lm

Technology and Livelihood Education Agriculture And Fishery , specialization, Agricultural Crops
Production ( Horticulture ) NC II Grade10

https://gltnhs-tle.weebly.com/lesson-14.html
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