Tasks

Implements Used

  Functions of Implements

 1. Preparation of Soil: Ploughing, Levelling and Manuring

    Animal driven wooden or iron ploughs or machine driven tractor Tractor or animal driven iron or wooden levelers. Manually or by drill

      Pulverising, uprooting the stubbles.   Making soil surface even for uniform   irrigation

  2. Sowing

By hand or seed drills. Broadcasting. In this process, the seeds are scattered on the seed beds either mechanically or manually.

Putting seeds in the prepared soil

  3. Addition of manure/ fertilizer

By hand or using drill or sprayer

Addition of nutrients needs by plants

  4. Irrigation

Sprinklers/wells/tubewells/ canals

Supplying water to plants

  5. Weeding

Trowel, Harrow, Spraying

Removal of weeds (unwanted plants)

 6. Crop protection

Sprayer/ manual or aerial spray by low flying helicopter

Control of diseases caused by plant pests, bacteria etc.

 7. Harvesting

Sickle, Harvester or Combine used for both harvesting and threshing

Reaping of crop plant

 8. Threshing

Manually, Thresher, Combine or Animals

Separation of grains

 9. Winnowing

Winnowers, Combine, Thresher

Removal of hay and chaff

10. Storage

Silos, Gunny bags, clay and metal containers

Storing grains for future buffer stock.