To make pressure on tea leaves reasonable and to efficiently carry out rolling by equipping a rolling machine for green tea manufacture with a pressure motor for vertically moving a pressure cover, measuring the electric current of the pressure motor and changing the pressure on tea leaves by the measured value.

This tea rolling machine is equipped with a pressure motor 11 for vertically moving a pressure cover 4. The electric current value of the pressure motor 11 of the pressure cover 4 is measured. Preferably the volume of tea leaves 3, a rolling process time, properties of the tea leaves 3, the degree of oozing of water in the interior to the surface, etc., are grasped, the pressure cover 4 is vertically moved properly and the pressure is changed. Preferably the electric current of the pressure motor 11 is measured, the number of revolutions of a rolling barrel 2 is changed by the measured value to control a rolling machine for green tea manufacture.