一、机采试验的开展新昌县是浙江省重点产茶县之一,早在70年代后期,全县就有条植新茶园6万亩,产量接近2500吨(5万担),且每年以300吨的幅度递增,采茶劳力的供需矛盾开始暴露,实行机械采茶就显得越来越重要。那时,中国农科院茶叶研究所和浙江省农业厅要选择机采的试点,由于该县在70年代全面推广了春茶留大叶采的采摘方法,茶园面貌较好,于是,1978年春 First, the machine mining test carried out Xinchang County is one of the key tea producing counties in Zhejiang Province, as early as the late 70s, the county has planted 60000 acres of new tea plantations, production close to 2,500 tons (50000), and each year 300 tons of increasing magnitude, the contradiction between supply and demand of tea labor began to be exposed, the implementation of mechanical tea picking is more and more important. At that time, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Tea Research Institute and Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture to choose machine mining pilot, since the county in the 70’s comprehensively promote the Spring Tea leaves leave picking method, the tea garden looks better, so the spring of 1978