采茶是茶叶生产中占用劳力最多,季节性最强的作业。一个拥有几千亩茶园的茶场,每逢采茶季节,都要招请成百上千的临时工,对茶场的经营管理压力很大。采茶季节正值农忙时期,在劳力调配上相当紧张,有“插得秧来茶变草,采得茶来秧又老”之势。这个矛盾随着茶园单产的提高和面积的扩大将更突出;为此,采茶机械化是茶叶生产,特别是大型国营 Tea picking is the most labor-intensive and seasonally-intensive homework in tea production. A tea plantation with thousands of acres of tea plantations invites hundreds of temporary workers during the tea-picking season, putting a lot of pressure on the operation and management of the tea plantation. During the busy season of picking tea, it was quite strained in terms of labor dispatch. There was a tendency of “inserting seedlings into tea and getting grass and picking tea to seedlings and grow old”. This contradiction will be more prominent with the increase of tea plantation yield and the expansion of area; for this reason, the mechanization of tea picking is the production of tea, especially the large state-owned