Tag: modern agriculture

• Hoe is a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding. Draw hoe is used for shaping the soil. 
• There are many types of draw hoe, like ridging hoe, hoe dads, etc. Swoe hoe and collinear hoes are types of scuffle hoe. 

• Scottish hand plow is used solely by human effort rather than with animal or machine assistance and is pulled backward by the operator, requiring great physical effort. It is particularly used for the second breaking of ground. The tool is typically found on smallholdings too small or poor to merit the use of animals. 

• A chisel plough is a common tool which is used to get deep tillage (prepared land) with limited soil disruption. 
• The main function of this plough is to loosen and aerate the soils while leaving crop residue at the top of the soil. 
• This plough can be used to reduce the effects of compaction and to help break up the hardpan. 
• Unlike many other ploughs, the chisel will not invert or turn the soil. This characteristic has made it a useful addition to no-till and low-till farming practices that attempt to maximise the erosion-prevention. 

Agriculture Hoe is a long handle with thin, flat blade tool, which is used to dig the surface of the ground, pick out the weeds etc. Draw hoes are used to remove weeds without moving the mound soil and Scuffle hoes are used to cut the root of weeds easily and cultivate the soil. Thus, the correct option is B.

• A plough or plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil. 
• The various types of ploughs used in agriculture are chisel, ridging, Scottish hand plough, mole plough etc. 

• Hoe is a long-handled gardening tool with a thin metal blade, used mainly for weeding. The human damage caused by long-term use of short-handled hoes, 
• which required the user to bend over from the waist to reach the ground, and caused permanent, crippling lower back pain to farmworkers. 

A harrow is an implement for breaking up and smoothing out the surface of the soil. Harrows were originally drawn by draft animals, such as horses, mules, or oxen. In modern practice, they are almost always drawn by tractor-mounted implements.