Zhu Changcai: Promoting Mechanized Tea-picking Effectively Resolving Labor Shortage

Zhuchangcai City People's Congress on behalf of Linhai City Yangyan tea farm long Taizhou tea has a long history, tea cultivation has become a characteristic pillar of Taizhou benefit agriculture and has the development potential of the industry. However, because this industry is a labor-intensive industry, many tea farms face the predicament of labor shortage.

In this regard, Zhu Changcai deeply touched, "anxious people, ah, tea crazy, we can not recruit tea pickers." "Looking at the garden full of buds overnight into a worthless coarse branches and leaves, the heart is hurt! "Every year during the peak period of tea picking, Zhu Changcai felt that it was very difficult.

“Tea farmers do not have the ability to solve the problem of labor shortage. Even if people are recruited this year, it will be a temporary solution. After this year, they will have to worry about next year.” Zhu Changcai said that seasonal tea picking is very strong, although many tea farmers will pay for picking tea. Workers pay for the pick-and-roll, and they are not paid for their tea picking. However, due to the short working hours of only one to two months, this type of tea picking is not available to those who have higher expectations for pay. Advantage. Together with the exploitation of tea, each piece of tea plantation requires labor at the same time. This concentration of demand further exacerbates the competition among tea farmers for tea pickers.

Because of the shortage of local tea pickers, tea growers have to make every effort to recruit outside tea pickers. "Our tea plant needs nearly 2,000 tea pickers a year. We can only recruit a quarter of them locally, and most of them go to foreign recruitment," said Zhu Changcai.

“I think that an effective way to crack this situation is the mechanization of tea picking, and at least middle and low-grade tea extract abstracts are mechanized.” Zhu Changcai believes that mechanized tea picking is a new tea picking technique and is also specific to agricultural modernization. which performed.

Four years ago, Zhu Changcai decided to try mechanized tea-picking and purchased several machines from Japan. “When I visited Japan, I personally felt the effect of agricultural mechanization on improving agricultural productivity.” Zhu Changcai said that mechanized tea picking requires certain conditions for tea gardens. At present, he is considering expanding high-standard tea gardens to prepare for the promotion of mechanized tea picking.