PERBANDINGAN PENGGUNAAN MESIN PETIK DAN PETIK TANGAN TERHADAP HASIL PRODUKSI PUCUK TEH (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) DI PERKEBUNAN KAYU ARO PTPN VI KABUPATEN KERINCI

Anna Kusumawati, Angga Triaji W

Abstract


Harvesting is an important job in the cultivation of tea. The methods of leaves picking in addition to affecting the number of results the tea, also to determine the quality of tea that it generates, so from that researchers want to find out the difference a result picking tea in different methods. The study was done by comparing the data results of the last 6 years tea production by different methods are harvesting machines and manual. The data obtained were analyzed using paired T-test is not comparing the production value on picking using the machine and the manual picking by 95% confidence level. The results of the analysis of the statistics show there is not real difference (t count (0.96) t 5% table < (2.228)) between the manual and the machine picking, but tea production using the machine (89,6511 tons) higher than production manual (59,1545 tonnes)

 

Keyword: Machine picking, manual picking, production, bud tea, tea


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