Mushroom Matter

Mushroom Matter

Welcome on our platform. Why MUSHROOM MATTER? Because mushrooms play an important role in our lives as well in business. Our goal is to bring the world the very latest mushroom news with the upmost care to support the positioning of our beloved Mushroom.

The 12th. Chinese mushroom days have taken place from November 16 to November 19 2018 in Zhangzhou, China. Each year this event is growing and growing and proves its success. The Chinese mushroom market is developing at rapid speed and the need for knowledge, innovation, product and technical information on mushrooms is evident. The Dutch Shelves System and Composting system is very interesting to the Chinese Market and a lot of developments are based on Dutch knowledge.

The mushroom sector was well represented and the almost all key players were present during these days. Two workshops were held, Lambert Spawn and Sylvan organised successful readings. Lambert Spawn invited several interesting speakers for their workshops like, Marc den Ouden Mushroom Office, Geert Lemmers Monaghan, Johan Baars Wageningen University, Eric Vernooij Champfood.

For more pictures of this event, please click here!

Over the years, Manas County, Sinkiang of China keeps on seizing mushroom industry as the breakthrough point that promotes the transformation and upgrading, quality elevation and benefit enhancement of agriculture, constantly accelerating the development step of agriculture while effectively leading farmers to realize stable income elevation.

On December 17, in one of mushroom cooperatives located in Manas County, mushroom cultivation is orderly in process.

“Our cooperative absorbs over 20 members, covers above 50 mu of growing area while its annual output value hits at least 3 million CNY,” said Ms. Yang Qin, principal of the cooperative warmly.

According to statistical data, from January to October of 2018, gross capacity of mushroom cultivation reached 6.2 million bags, output value hit 63 million CNY in Manas County, up for 8%.
On December 10, research experts From New Zealand, France and Mexico went to Bionic Truffle Cultivation Base of Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province of China for scientific research investigation.
“It generally takes 5 years to realize artificial Truffle cultivation while the first crop of Truffle has been output in our base,” said principal of the base with excitement.

Truffle is the delicacy which is known as The Top Three Ingredients in the world with goose liver and caviar, and it is also hailed as “Black Diamond of the Woods ”. After 16 years of unremitting efforts, bottleneck problem on bionic cultivation technology of Truffle has been tackled by Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of Panzhihua City.

Next step, the academy is going to implement scientific research experiment on how to lift the quality and output, and how to launch into large-scale and industrialized cultivation so as to promote bionic Truffle cultivation into the good industry that boosts the economic development of agricultural and forestry and drives farmers to increase earnings and grow affluent.
Recently, it is the peak marketing time of Grifola frondosa in Zhongji Village, Huangtian Town, Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province of China.

“This time, gross amount of Grifola frondosa purchased reaches 400 tons, with the market price of 9-11 CNY per kg, products are all exported to Japan,” said director of Zhongji Village.

Grifola frondosa is the rare edible and medicinal mushroom which is known as Maitake mushroom in China. According to experts, 100g of dried Grifola frondosa are packed with 22.75g of protein, 23.58g of amino acid, and other micro elements. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Grifola frondosa and its extracts evidently play the role of warding off cancer and virus, enhancing the immune system, lowering the blood pressure, blood sugar and blood fat, thus helping support healthy energy.

In Japan, sales of Grifola frondosa is next only to Shiitake and Enoki mushroom, volume of market demand is 1000 tons per year. And, China is the largest nation on aspect of cultivation and export of Grifola frondosa, Grifola frondosa cultivated in Huangtian Town also occupy 80% of that of China.

glags picMy name is Erik de Groot and as of today I am writing a blog on this website with i hope, interesting articles for you to read.

Since I was a teenager I have worked with mushrooms so it has an important meaning in my life. I started working on farms as a picker, cleaner and whatever had to be done. Later I rented my own farm before I decided to go to work in bigger farms. I worked several years in the Netherlands and after a while I got involved in consultancy work. That really made a big change in my life, as I travelled all over the world working in several continents. Right now I have my own consultancy company named GLAGS, I live in California, USA and do consultancy work all around the globe with projects in China, Russia, Australia and several places in Europe.

My strong points are that my experience is very wide. From compost to harvesting and with the experience having worked on farms, it makes it easier to understand the difficulties that growers, composters and farm managers face.

Besides my consultancy work I write articles in several magazines and with this new blog I want to reach even more people in the industry with news and stories about the industry.
I hope you like it and any comment or suggestions can be send to my email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Erik de Groot
Global AGriculture Services

Now, in mushroom house located in Udine Burag Village, Hanggin Banner, Ordos City of Inner Mongolia, Agaricus arvensis mushrooms are in good growth trend, which indicates its successful trial planting.

Udine Burag Village is in hilly and gully region where is perennially drought, rarely rainy, poor in ecological environment, small in cultivated farmland and meadow per capita. In April of 2018, local villagers were guided to embark on mushroom farming in abandoned schools, and the species is Agaricus arvensis.

Agaricus arvensis is one of the famous and excellent mushroom specialties in Inner Mongolia of China, and it is the technical achievement reached by the domestication of wild Agaricus arvensis. Agaricus arvensis is packed with protein, fibre, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and vitamins, and it is always in short supply in China.

In western mountainous area of Pingyin County of Shandong Province, dry climate, dense ditches and high slopes indicate small-scale crop farming and low benefit. Restricted by natural conditions, local farmers are eager to seek leading industry that suits local characteristics and propels them to increase incomes and become rich.

Over the years, Pingyin County fully mobilizes various resources and further promotes trench-pattern mushroom growing. In 2018, armed with the gross investment of 110 million CNY, the project of modern mushroom garden was launched by Jinan Yuandong Agricultural Technology Development Co., LTD. By now, 6 fermentation tunnels constructed by Dutch advanced fermentation technology have shown the embryo, after the complete construction, quality of mushroom compost could be substantially improved.

“After the mushroom garden is built, the projected annual consumption on agricultural straw and animal manure reaches 60,000 tons, annual output on mushroom bags comes to 15 million while annual processing and marketing volume on Drumstick mushroom (Coprinus comatus) reaches 30,000 tons,” said principal of the project confidently.

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