Agriculture is a labour concentrated process that cannot be done only by hands and needs essential machines and tools to accomplish agricultural activities. These machines used in agriculture are known as agricultural equipment or implements.
What is Agricultural Equipment?
Agricultural equipment or implements are tools that are used to accomplish agricultural practices. A great variety of these farming or agriculture equipment is used today in farming activities. Generally, the major implements are of five types.
Types of Farming machinery or Agricultural Implements
The various types of farming implements are mentioned below that are used nowadays by the farmers to facilitate and make easier production of crops:
Irrigation Machines
It comprises centre pivot irrigation systems and drive units. It is used to give water to the crops at suitable levels.
Tillage Equipment
These equipment include rotary tiller, disc harrows, plough, subsoiler, cultivator or tiller, disc ridger, power harrow, ripper and are used to plough the land and prepare it for cultivation.
Seeding Equipment
These machinery make easy to plant the seeds and saplings in the large land area after the cultivation of the soil. The implements include precision drills, broadcast seeders, seed drills, air seeders, transplanting equipment, etc.
Harvesting Equipment
Harvesting Equipment is used to harvest the ripe crops. These implements include trailers, pickers, diggers etc.
Many other far types of machinery are used in final agricultural activities like loading, hay-making, shredding, etc. There are also various types of agricultural tools used by farmers in farming.
Agricultural Tools
Different types of tools are also used in farming such as sickle, hoe, plough, drills, haulage, landscaping equipment, fertilizer spreaders, etc. These tool in agricultural make the various activities more efficient.
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