Horticulture Tools Identification & Their Uses

Spade

Use:- for lifting and turning the soil. Also used for digging the pit, preparing channel for irrigation and drainage.

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Fork

Use:- for digging, hoeing and compost handling.

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Shovel

Use:- for placing dug-out soil from one place to another.

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Pick Axe

Use:- for digging hard, compact and stony soil.

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Axe

Use:- for cutting branches and felling trees.

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Kodali

Use:- for digging compact soil.

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Sickle

Use:- for weeding and cutting leafy vegetables like fenugreek, spinach, coriander, cabbage, cauliflower, bottle gourd and etc.

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Budding & Grafting Knife

Use:- it is knife having combined blade for both the purpose of budding and grafting.

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Secateur

Use:- it is used in pruning for cutting twigs and shoots.

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Bill Hook

Use:- for cutting hardy branches of plant and other woody shrubs.

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Pruning Saw

Use:- for cutting stem and branches of thicker diameter.

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Garden Rake

Use:- to collect stump and other residues of plant in the field. It is also helps in breaking clouds and levelling of land.

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Lopping Shear

Use:- for pruning tree from ground.

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Khurpi

Use:- for removing weeds from the field. It also used for digging bulb crop.

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Hedge Shear

Use:- for pruning hedges to maintain them in proper shape.

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Grass Shear

Use:- for uniform cutting of grasses. It is also used for side dressing of law grass and cutting other shoots.

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Mango Harvester

Use:- it consists of two blades, net basket and a long handle. The harvested Mango is collected in the basket.

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Trolley

Use:- for easy shifting of seedling, compost, manures in field. 

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V-Blade Hand How

Use:- for earthing-up soil to the plant.

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Trowel

Use:- for uplifting nursery plants and also for transplanting seedlings.