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FARM MACHINERY AND THEIR USES.
- TRACTORS
- PLOUGHS
- SPRAYERS
- PLANTER
- BULLDOZER.
TRACTORS
A tractor is a modern vehicle designed to convey a high load effort at slow speeds, for moving a machine used in construction and agriculture.. Agricultural tools and other machines may be towed behind or carried, and even mounted on a tractor, and the tractor may also act as a source of power if the tool is equally mechanized.
USES OF TRACTOTS
- Plowing
- Harrowing
- Sowing
- Intercultivation
- Spraying/Pesticide application
- Ploughing the land
- Preparing bed
- Polythene and drip line layer
- Planting
- HARVESTING
all these uses can are associated with a farm tractor. It can either accomplish all this by its use alone or with the addition of another machine. But nevertheless, this farm machine tremendously reduces the work done on farmlands.
PLOUGHS
This is a large farm machine with more than one blade fixed in the frame. This blades are drawn across the soil to turn it over and create furrows to prepare for the planting of seeds on the farmland.
USES OF PLOUGS
- breaks tough soils layers without the soil getting stuck to it.
- looses soil structures or moulds. Cultivation of fields.
SPRAYERS
A piece of equipment used to apply fertilizer, pesticides or herbicides on farm crops. A very useful tool for dispersing of liquid covering a large area withing a short time........ This reduces the efforts put in by the farmer and improves accuracy in spreading liquid.
TYPES OF SPRAYERS
- hand held sprayers
- backpack sprayers
- pull behind sprayers
- aerial applicator
- self propelled agricultural sprayer
PLANTER
This is a farm tool, usually attached behind a tractor for the sole purpose of sowing seeds.
BULLDOZER
This is known as a crawler machine. It is used to push large quantities of soil, rubble, stones, gravel, or sand. This is a farm machine but it is also used in construction. It has an arm-like extension called the ripper.
TYPES
- CRAWLER BULLDOZER
- WHEEL BULLDOZER
It is safe to say that farming methods would be crude, difficult and slow if not for the creation of these machines which continually aid farmers in their day to day activities.