The majority of sloping tea gardens in China are now short of effective management because of the limitation of labor force, therefore tea quality is hard to guarantee and the tea industry might be frustrated. Thus a new ecological no-tillage technique (abbreviation for ENT) was put forward, the application of this technique was developed on the basis of some reconstructions in current sloping tea gardens including two key steps: 1) remolding present sloping tea gardens into semi-trapezoidal one by a special ditch; 2) preserving pruning brunches and organic fertilizers into those ditches to form an organic cover layer on soil. This no-tillage technique could significantly reduce soil erosion as well as promote the formation of organic matters on soil surface in 3-5 years. Comparing with the conventional tillage measures, ENT could save about 40% fertilization and 50% labor-cost. Combine with assistant managements, the ecological no-tillage technology could not only effectively recover ecosystem, but also depress plant diseases and insect pests. Improvement on tea production and tea quality especially tea aroma are also observed. It is convincible that ENT has considerable advantages in cost-savings and production efficiency improvement in sloping tea gardens, which makes it one of the reference management choices for future sustainable development.
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