On September 30, trial cultivation of Pleurotus djamor (Pink Oyster mushroom) launched by R&D Center of Zhejiang University gets succeeded.
“Pleurotus djamor is a kind of rare, edible and medicinal mushroom which also carries ornamental value, and it could be artificially cultivated by straws as carbon source,” introduces Mr. Chen Zaiming, chief expert of Zhejiang University kindly.
Pleurotus djamor is a burgeoning health food which contains high protein and low fat. Compared with Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus djamor is low on moisture and fat, and high in carbohydrate, cellulose and mineral substances.
Related research indicates that mycelia polysaccharide of Pleurotus djamor helps improve the glycometabolism and lipid metabolism of diabetic mice, alleviate the damage to organism caused by oxidative stress and prevent the occurrence and development of diabetic complication.
Mycelia polysaccharide of Pleurotus djamor holds abirritant properties, it could be applied in health food industry and shows broad and bright market prospect.

Now, in Chengdu Huiguyuan Technology Co., LTD which stands in Pingle Village, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province of China, Yellow Enoki mushrooms are in desirable growth tendency.
“Compared with traditional inoculation pattern of solid spawn, liquid spawn inoculation greatly lifts production efficiency,” said Mr. Li Zongtang, general manager of the company warmly, going on that production time for solid spawn is 60 days while it takes 7 days to output liquid spawn. And during the production process, liquid spawn inoculates 10,000 bags each person per day.
Founded in April, 2016, Chengdu Huiguyuan Technology Co., LTD occupies an area of 128.24 mu and carries the gross investment of 120 million CNY. Now, the company sets production, R&D and marketing of edible mushroom into one, products enjoy good market in China. In 2018, the company proposes to broaden its scale, and promote itself into the largest Yellow Enoki mushroom producer which holds the estimated annual output of 30,000 tons and the expected annual output value of over 100 million CNY in Southwest China.

Lin County, Shanxi Province of China lies in Yellow River Valley, and the junction part of Shanxi and Shaanxi Province. It covers 2979 square kilometers, governs 23 villages and towns totalling 631 administrative villages. Besides, Lin County holds over 655,400 of gross population, of which 547,500 engage in agriculture industry.
Mushroom industry began to emerge in 2014 in Lin County, starting from scratch, by now, 12 villages and towns totalling over 2000 population have been encouraged to launch into mushroom growing while mushroom industry has been seen as the NEW ENGINE that leads local masses to increase revenues and grow affluent.
In Lin County, total area for Shiitake farming reaches over 560 mu, annual output on fresh Shiitake comes to 7.5 million kg, annual production value hits 15 million CNY while Lin County has become the largest Shiitake producer in Shanxi Province, China. In addition, in recent years, the county positively relies on its resource advantage on jujube tree to boost Shiitake cultivation, Shiitake mushrooms cultivated via jujube trees contain multiple trace elements required by human body, and they gain popularity by general consumers.
Nowadays, Fenglin Modern Agricultural Technology Co., LTD is the largest mushroom producer in Lin County. The company adopts frame-pattern Shiitake cultivation in fruiting shed. And each fruiting shed generally absorbs 10,000 logs, each 2 logs output 1.5 kg.
“We currently hold 44 high-standard sunlight greenhouses, 33 Shiitake greenhouses, a processing factory of Shiitake log that occupies 1500 square meters, 2 refrigeration houses that cover 200 square meters and 1 spawn room, annual output on fresh mushroom comes to 400,000 kg and 4 million of mushroom logs could be annually processed,” introduces related principal from Fenglin Company detailedly.

On September 18, in Reishi mushroom garden which lies in Duanjiawu Village, Renqiu City, Hebei Province of China, two principals are carefully observing the growth condition of Reishi mushroom.
“In 2014, we quitted the job and returned to our hometown for Reishi mushroom cropping,” said Mr. Han Zinan, the older principal warmly, going on that Reishi mushroom is known as Ganoderma and it carries high medicinal value. Ganoderma bonsais have also become the preferred decoration in top-grade sitting room, office and hotel by virtues of unique, classic, artistic design and profound artistic connotation.
The road of entrepreneurship wasn’t go off smoothly. In initial stage, due to lack of cultivation experience, the two brothers suffered from a big hit in trial cropping. However, they were undaunted, through repeated investigation to Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces and regions in China, they gradually mastered the growing technology of Reishi mushroom and opened up marketing channels. Nowadays, the base covers over 30 mu of area and absorbs 8 greenhouses, annual output on Reishi mushroom comes to 100,000 plants and annual output value hits nearly 2 million CNY.

According to statistical data from FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), global mushroom output has been increasing from 30.256 million tons in 2010 to 47.956 million tons in 2016, with 8% of CAGR. As the value of mushroom is constantly explored and approved, global mushroom output is expected to maintain a high growth speed.
As the income level of Chinese rural and urban residents constantly rises, and with the transformation of comprehensive health awareness and consumption concept, consumers place more importance on safety, nutrition and health-care function of foods. In view of the public pursuit to a healthy and energetic life, status of mushroom products is getting its improvement on consumer’s dietary structure.
1. Evident growth trend to food consumption expenditure on Chinese rural and urban residents: Along with the steady improvement of urban and rural residents’ income, expenditure on food category rises. For rban and rural residents, per capita consumption expenditure on food category was respectively increased from 4955 CNY, 1200 CNY in 2000 to 6500 CNY, 3215 CNY in 2016.
2. Rapid development of catering industry further stimulates the growth of mushroom consumption: Mushrooms’ downstream industry is catering industry, incomes of residents and growth of catering industry are the powerful support on the demand end. Mushroom products are sold to restaurants, canteens via distributors, and they gush into thousands of households by supermarkets or farmers’ markets while a small portion of them are sold to end consumers after the deep processing. Since the 21st century, catering industry has been rapiding developed in China, turnover was increased from 52.85 billion CNY in 2000 to 512.71 billion CNY in 2016, showing nearly 10 times of growth.
As the dishes cooked by raw and auxiliary materials of mushrooms increase year by year and along with the growth on retail sales of catering industry, Catering Industry has become one of the crucial channels for mushroom marketing. Besides, in order to meet the requirement of clients, staffs working in Catering Industry have to strive for the standard on food safety, and strengthen the consciousness on raw materials’ safety and environmental protection, thus gradually driving the development of factory mushroom production and satisfying the rapidly-growing of mushroom requirement.
3. Capacity of mushroom production gets sustained growth and shows strong reserve strength in China: China’s mushroom output rises year by year, now, its gross output value ranks the sixth position, next only to Grain, Cotton, Oil, Vegetable and Fruit. During 2005-2016, output value of mushroom industry was increased from 58.5 billion CNY to 251.64 billion CNY, with 14.2% of compound annual growth rate. It is estimated that China’s mushroom market scale is hopeful to lead above 10% of rapid growth speed.
As the world’s largest nation on aspect of mushroom production volume, China consumes 98% of its native mushrooms, which indicates substantial consumption. On the one hand, China holds a large population that is accustomed to ingest mushroioms from ancient times to the present. On the other hand, since the reform and open up in China, a great number of rural population have been transferred to big cities, the improvement of living standard and cultural integration changes people’s dietary consumption habit. For example, Hot Pot, a kind of popular dietary style that carries regional characteristics, is widespread in China while mushrooms such as Enoki mushroom, Shiitake and Oyster mushroom are the important components of its ingredients. (Source: China Commercial Industry Research Institute.)

Recently, in Heilongjiang Lvming Agricultural Development Co., LTD, Black fungi are in good growth trend in the base.
Located in Longjiang County, Heilongjiang Province of China, Heilongjiang Lvming Agricultural Development Co., LTD is a scientific and technological mushroom development enterprise which integrates R&D of mushroom strain, production of mushroom bag, technical service, product recycling, processing and marketing into one.
“In addition to production of fresh and dried Black fungi, we also specialize in its deep processing work, by now, product of Black Fungus Powder has been successfully exploited by wall-breaking technology and received positive feedback from consumers,” introduces general manager of Lvming Company warmly.
As China’s famous large grain producer, Longjiang County is also a provincial poor county which holds 3750 poor households totalling 10.547 poor population. In order to propel to get rid of the poverty situation, high-end and functional mushroom farming was introduced to Longjiang County after repeated demonstration and investigation. Now, with the abundance of corncob and corn stalks, mushroom cropping that features Black fungus, Nameko, Monkey head mushroom, Stropharia rugosoannulata and other varieties is in vigorous development momentum.

Ireland's mushroom growers are in the midst of a "massive crisis" due to increased substrate (compost) prices coupled with the uncertainty of Brexit and rising overheads.

Commercial Mushroom Producers CEO, Donal McCarthy, said that the increase in demand among dairy farmers for straw for fodder and bedding as a result of the recent drought has caused the price of mushroom substrate - which is made of straw - to surge.

He said that the price of mushroom substrate, which is the main ingredient of mushrooms, has increased by 15-20pc due to the fact that it has to be imported from France and Spain as it is in scarce supply in Ireland.

"Straw is very expensive and scarce at the moment," said Mr McCarthy. "It has to be imported and inevitably that means our costs of production are going to increase. Compost makes up a third of the product and when that goes up in price by 15-20pc it will obviously have an effect on growers.

"There has been a huge transition of land from tillage to dairy in recent years, which has meant that there is less straw for compost available, and the bad weather this year and drought has led to a fodder crisis, which is making it more difficult for mushroom growers to access straw."

IFA mushroom chair, Gerard Reilly, said that he is currently paying over €200/t for compost as a result of the current crisis.

Fluctuating Sterling/Euro exchange rates and rising costs in energy and labour are also increasing overheads of mushrooms growers, who supply 50pc of mushrooms sold in the UK market.

"We've been through a very difficult time. When exchange rates moved two years ago when Brexit was announced, some companies died and now there is a severe labour shortage in the sector and energy costs are set to increase by 20pc," said Mr McCarthy.

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