How to solve the shortage of rural labor in spring tea picking season?

As the saying goes, "Spring strives for Yang, summer strives for summer, and it is not too late to have a big event in a year." With the gradual warming of the temperature, recently, many places began to enter the spring tea production season. It is true that some tea farmers are worried that difficulties in tea picking and processing may affect the production and sales of spring tea this year. In fact, spring tea encounters difficulties in tea picking and processing because of insufficient labor. Insiders pointed out that speeding up the mechanization of production, further improving the mechanization level of tea industry and adding sufficient horsepower to the industry are undoubtedly the key to solving the problems such as labor shortage.

"The fragrance of tea is unknown, and tea farmers are busy picking tea; Tea before tomorrow is a treasure, and tea after tomorrow is grass. " If not picked in time, the leaves will grow bigger and bigger, which will directly affect the flavor, taste and quality of tea in the later stage. Even so, due to the slow resumption of work and insufficient labor, tea enterprises are facing labor shortage in tea harvesting and processing. So, how to break through the difficulties in tea production and ensure its yield and quality?

The author understands that at present, many local departments are actively helping tea farmers to solve the employment problem of tea picking, and tea enterprises are also coping with the difficulties and problems brought about by the current resumption of work and production, and put forward strengthening epidemic prevention measures and supervision and management for tea production, processing and sales to ensure stable production and bumper harvest.

On the other hand, actively promoting mechanized tea picking, encouraging to improve the automation and mechanization level of tea production, and reducing the labor of tea picking and production will not only help to avoid people gathering and contact, reduce production costs, but also ensure the yield and quality of tea.

In recent years, with the gradual weakening of labor dividend advantage, the cost of labor-intensive food processing industry and tea industry has been rising, coupled with the difficulty in recruiting workers and high turnover rate, which has brought great impact to the development of related industries. Nowadays, with the rapid development and application of food processing machinery and tea machinery, the advantages of manual tea picking, tea frying, water fixation and many other links being replaced by machines are outstanding, which not only solves the problem of labor shortage, but also ensures stable and guaranteed output and tea quality, which has made many tea farmers and tea enterprises taste the sweetness.

The author understands that a certain place has accelerated the "machine substitution" project, actively encouraged tea farmers to mechanically pick tea, and vigorously applied modern, clean and automated tea processing production lines to solve the labor shortage and other problems, while stabilizing production, increasing efficiency and ensuring quality, and achieving sound development. In addition, a tea enterprise introduced clean tea processing production lines such as frying, enzyme fixation, rolling, aroma promotion and color selection to improve the quality of tea processing, realize standardized and automated production, improve the yield and quality of tea, and ensure the spring tea to be listed as scheduled.

Nowadays, the work of "machine substitution" in tea industry in many places has attracted much attention. Modern tea machinery has been introduced into traditional tea production to increase horsepower for tea production. Insiders pointed out that "it is urgent to change the traditional tea production mode and vigorously develop the mechanization of tea production, which is the key to solve the problems such as labor shortage".

At present, tea processing machinery, such as tea frying machine, water-fixing machine, etc., has gradually changed from small-scale operation of single machine to automatic, non-landing and clean production operation of complete assembly line equipment, which has improved efficiency and ensured quality.

Even so, at present, manual tea picking is still the main method, with low efficiency, unstable output and high cost. Especially in the face of rising labor costs and shortage of tea pickers, tea farmers urgently need to improve the mechanization level of tea picking, which can not only improve production efficiency, save labor costs, but also ensure the quality of new tea. Of course, tea processing enterprises should also do the same, actively introduce tea-making machinery and equipment such as tea frying machine, water-fixing machine and dryer, continuously improve the level of production automation, stabilize production and increase income.

As a labor-intensive industry, tea picking, tea frying and tea picking all need the support of labor. However, considering from many aspects, the mechanization of tea production is undoubtedly the key to solve the problem of labor shortage under the circumstances of rising labor cost, difficulty in recruiting workers and labor shortage.

At present, the driving of tea machinery and equipment plays an increasingly prominent role in industrial development. Tea farmers and tea enterprises should also seize the opportunity of "machine substitution", speed up the replacement of old and new production capacity, improve the mechanization level of tea picking, production and processing, and make spring tea listed as scheduled.