My 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.

On December 5, the second batch of mushrooms produced in Hebei Guangming Jiudaogu Biotechnology Co., LTD are transported to South Africa by waterage.

“South Africa is another oversea market exploited by our company after Thailand and USA, up to now, gross volume of fresh mushroom exported to South Africa has reached 18.42 tons,” explains related manager from Jiudaogu Company. “Quality of fresh mushroom produced in our company meets international standard, for this time of export, we adopt 40-feet freezer which is kept at temperature of 2-5 degrees Celsius for 24 hours.”

Established in April, 2015, Hebei Guangming Jiudaogu Biotechnology Co., LTD holds the total investment of 1.5 billion CNY, annual output on Enoki, White beech, Brown shimeji and other high-end mushrooms comes to 70,000 tons. And, the company also provides stable job opportunities for nearly 1000 population, of which 400 are in poverty-stricken position.