Mushrooms Suisses producers are on site at the BEA Expo and provide information. They pick / harvest live at the BEA. All exhibited mushrooms from Swiss culture are offered for tasting / purchase at Mushrooms Suisses marketstall.

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Now, it is the picking time of Morel mushrooms artificially farmed in Lingshang Cooperative of Yiliang County, Yunnan Province of China.

“We averagely pick at least 100kg of fresh Morel mushrooms per day, and picking period is estimated to terminate by June,” introduces chief of the cooperative warmly.

As one of the most valuable rare mushrooms in the world, Morels also pertain to a kind of high-end nourishment which contains abundant proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and over 20 kinds of amino acids.

Morel mushrooms carry unique fragrance, complete functions and evident effect to food therapy. This kind of mushroom holds the efficacy of tonifying kidney and brain, refreshing while it shows good auxiliary therapeutic effects on dizziness insomnia, weakness of the spleen and the stomach, indigestion and poor appetite. In addition, it also helps prevent and fight with cancer, ward off colds, enhance the immune system and hence it medically shows crucial development value. Now, in China, market price of dried Morel mushroom is at 1600-2000 CNY per kg. In western European countries, Morels are extremely in tight supply and high price.

Now, Grifola frondosa cultivated in Nongchuangke Baigu Garden of Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province of China are in peak fruiting season, growers are busy with fruiting management.

“In standardized greenhouse, temperature, humidity, ventilation, illumination and other factors are well controlled, which promotes the stable growth of Grifola frondosa while further enhancing the quality,” introduces Mr. Liu Qingfu, principal of Baigu Garden warmly, going on that during the fruiting time, temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide should be well controlled so that Grifola frondosa thrive.

Grifola frondosa is categorized into a kind of edible and rare mushroom, and its cultivation shows high requirement to water quality, air and other natural environment. Now, Qingyuan County annually outputs over 20 million logs of Grifola frondosa, annual output reaches 1500 tons while output value comes to over 300 million CNY.

We are very happy to announce that Henk van Gerwen has joined our team as a new Blogger. Henk has a broad and deep knowledge of the mushroom industry and will take us with him on his mushroom travels and will share his experiences.

Henk started his career in 1978 in Zeeland at a mushroom farm, a little town in the south of Holland, and worked his way up to management level and was offered to lead a new farm. He decided then to broaden his horizon and moved to New Zealand, but due to family circumstances he went back to the Netherlands and was quickly picked up by the Mushroom University. He worked there as a teacher, with a strong focus on short courses, for more than ten years and travelled a lot to Ireland and the UK.

The next step in his career was becoming an independent mushroom consultant and became part of AdVisie an consultancy service company in 2011. For 8 years he travelled the world and visited numerous of customers to provide them with mushroom advice and loved the troubleshooting aspect of this work. From this year, 2019 Henk has become a fully independent mushroom consultant and is working for his own customers mainly in Europe.

Next to all his mushroom activities, Henk and his wife Ans have their own company “Akkie’s Tuin”. Ans and Henk are beekeepers with a passion for bees, healthy eating and drinking. They grow fruits and herbs as well.

We are looking forward to his contribution to our platform and the mushroom industry by sharing his experience and knowledge!

Link to the website, please click here

We are very happy to announce that Henk van Gerwen has joined our team as a new Blogger. Henk has a broad and deep knowledge of the mushroom industry and will take us with him on his mushroom travels and will share his experiences.

Henk started his career in 1978 in Zeeland at a mushroom farm, a little town in the south of Holland, and worked his way up to management level and was offered to lead a new farm. He decided then to broaden his horizon and moved to New Zealand, but due to family circumstances he went back to the Netherlands and was quickly picked up by the Mushroom University. He worked there as a teacher, with a strong focus on short courses, for more than ten years and travelled a lot to Ireland and the UK.

The next step in his career was becoming an independent mushroom consultant and became part of AdVisie an consultancy service company in 2011. For 8 years he travelled the world and visited numerous of customers to provide them with mushroom advice and loved the troubleshooting aspect of this work. From this year, 2019 Henk has become a fully independent mushroom consultant and is working for his own customers mainly in Europe.

Next to all his mushroom activities, Henk and his wife Ans have their own company “Akkie’s Tuin”. Ans and Henk are beekeepers with a passion for bees, healthy eating and drinking. They grow fruits and herbs as well.

We are looking forward to his contribution to our platform and the mushroom industry by sharing his experience and knowledge!

Link to the website: https://akkiestuin.nl/

From 2007-2018, mushroom industry got rapid growth in Guan’nan County, by now, over 44 industrialized mushroom enterprises have been established within the county, varieties cover King oyster, Button, Enoki and others. In 2017, gross output on fresh mushroom came to 580,000 tons and output value hit 5 billion CNY in Guan’nan County. And from January to August of 2018, the county also gathered 396,000 tons of gross output and yielded 3.6 billion CNY of output value.

Guan’nan County holds a long history on aspect of mushroom production. Over the years, Guan’nan County closely combines with local reality, insists on grasping mushroom farming as the leading industry that optimizes industrial structure and promotes modern high-efficiency agriculture. Now, mushroom industry is leading the rapid growth trend in Guan’nan County, degrees of industrialized mushroom clustering rank first in China while output value is in amplification year by year.

Guan’nan County, Jiangsu Province of China situates in Southern margin of the North Temperature Zone, it is born with warm and wet monsoon climate condition, sufficient rainfall, wet environment and it quite fits for mushrooms’ growth. Over the years, mushroom industry has been showing the rapid growth within the county.

In modern agricultural garden zone of Guan’nan County, there gather over 50 enterprises engaging in industrialized mushroom production, in one of the most prestigious enterprises referring to Jiangsu Yuguan Modern Agricultural Technology Co., LTD, King oyster mushroom and Button mushroom are showing desirable growth tendency in the workshop.

“We are the most advanced and the largest enterprise specializing in domestication and production of White mushroom in China, in our workshop, at least 8 batches of production could be realized per year, and average daily output on White mushroom reaches nearly 100 tons, fresh mushrooms are sold well to the majority of cities in China while canned mushroom products gush into America, Canada and other nations and regions. The minimum annual sales value hits over 100 million CNY,” introduces Mr. Chen Jinhe, vice general manager of Yuguan Company passionately, adding that in 2017, gross foreign exchange earnings on mushroom export reached 4 million USD.

Nowadays, degree of industrialized mushroom enterprise clustering of Guan’nan County ranks first in China, gross output on King oyster mushroom, Button, Enoki mushroom and other varieties comes to 580,000 tons per year while annual output value reaches 5 billion CNY.

According to mushroom quotation provided by Gansu Lanzhou Zhangsutan Vegetable Wholesale Market, on April 15, King oyster mushroom, Yellow Enoki mushroom, Enoki mushroom, Brown Shimeji mushroom and Agrocybe cylindracea are 5 mushroom varieties that show price rise.

1. Price of King oyster mushroom has risen from 6 to 7.5 CNY per kg, indicating 25% of increase range.

2. Price of Yellow Enoki mushroom has risen from 14 to 16 CNY per kg, indicating 14% of increase range.

3. Price of Enoki mushroom has risen from 4 to 6.5 CNY per kg, indicating 63% of increase range.

4. Price of Brown Shimeji mushroom has risen from 12.5 to 13.4 CNY per kg, indicating 7% of increase range.

5. Price of Agrocybe cylindracea has risen from 12 to 14 CNY per kg, indicating 17% of increase range.

On the contrary, by April 15, Pleurotus nebrodensis and Oyster mushroom are 2 varieties that show price fall.

1. Price of Pleurotus nebrodensis has dropped from 26 to 24 CNY per kg, indicating 8% of decline range.

2. Price of Oyster mushroom has dropped from 7 to 5 CNY per kg, indicating 29% of decline range.

“Price of Shiitake mushroom, Superior Shiitake mushroom, White beech mushroom, Seafood mushroom and Button mushroom is respectively at 12 CNY, 16 CNY and 16.7 CNY, 8 CNY and 13 CNY per kg. Recently, price of industrialized mushroom varieties shows an overall upward trend in our market, Enoki mushroom and King oyster mushroom are quite evident on aspect of that,” introduces manager of Gansu Lanzhou Zhangsutan Vegetable Wholesale Market passionately.