Abstract

Tea picking is an important link in tea production. Manual tea picking accounts for more than half of the cost of tea production. Developing and popularizing tea-picking machine is beneficial to increase labor productivity, reduce labor cost, enhance the market competitiveness of tea products and promote the sustainable development of tea industry. The slope of tea garden in hilly and mountainous areas of China is large, and most of the tea gardens put into production adopt close planting pattern, and the row spacing of the tea garden is variable, the canopy surface is irregular, and the height difference of the side ditch of the tea garden is big, which is far away from the standard tea garden, it is difficult for large and medium-sized tea pickers to enter the garden, so small-sized self-propelled tea pickers can be suitable for China’s tea picking production. This paper compares and analyzes the sticking points or difficult problems to be solved by small self-propelled tea picker in China from five aspects, such as walking chassis, control of Picker, collection and storage of fresh leaves, equipment manufacturing technology and agricultural machinery agronomic integration, the paper puts forward five key directions, such as the optimization design of high-stability walking and control system, the research and development of tea profile picker and self-adaptive system, the innovation and development of small-scale and high-efficiency fresh leaf collecting and storing device, the integration and industrialization of whole machine and key components manufacturing technology, and the integration and application of self-propelled tea picker agricultural

Keywords:Keywords: Tea Picker; Technology gap; Direction; Planting pattern; Agronomic