Recently, in Brazil mushroom greenhouse of Shangmei Village, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province of China, mushroom growers are busy with preparation work of mushroom cultivation.

As the model village of mushroom production, Shangmei Village vigorously strengthens cultivation of Brazil mushroom, Bamboo fungus, Black fungus, Flower mushroom, Russula and others which enjoy wide market and gain popularity by customers.

In 2017, 270 Brazil mushroom greenhouses were built in Shangmei Village, gross output reached 108 tons, by market price of 130 CNY per kg, gross output value came to over 14 million CNY. Besides, the village is also exploiting 6-7 mushroom varieties, more than 1000 people join in the industry and contribute to annual output value of 20 million CNY or so.

Now, in factory of Shanghai Lianzhong Mushroom Cooperative, whole transformation process of straw is being staged.

“We mix dried straws and cow dung, after several days of fermentation, they become swarthy base stock,” introduces Mr. Zhang, principal of the cooperative passionately, adding that this year, he holds over 700 mu of straws, to calculate by mu output of 800 kg, gross output reaches 5.6 million kg.

Straw recycling on mushroom cultivation facilitates eliminating environmental pollution while generating handsome incomes and realizing a win-win situation.

In 2015, Shanghai Lianzhong Mushroom Cooperative introduced advanced technology from Holland, and launched into green and ecological mushroom cultivation via the mixture of chicken manure and straw. By now, 12 straw packing machines have been introduced to the cooperative, once straws are harvested, machines recycle and package smashed straws. Now, annual consumption amount on straw reaches 20,000 tons in the cooperative.

According to the latest statistics from Supply and Marketing Cooperative of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province of China. In 2017, gross cultivation capacity reached 4.3 billion bags, gross output on fresh mushroom came to 2.18 million tons and average per capita pure income represented 3500 CNY to local growers.

As the Black Fungus Capital of the World and The Largest Production and Marketing City of Chinese Superior Monkey Head Mushroom, Mudanjiang City positively guides mushroom growers to build greenhouses, lift mushrooms quality and stimulate the circulation.

By now, 1000 standardized mushroom greenhouses have been established in the city, gross amount of greenhouse has been increased from 9000 to 10,000 and total cultivation capacity attains 300 million bags. According to statistics, in 2017, mushroom output of Mudanjiang City respectively accounted for 65% of Heilongjiang Province and 6% of China, specifically, in the city, cultivation capacity of Black fungus obtains 3.96 billion bags and gross output comes to 1.98 million tons, accounting for 30% of China’s Black fungus output and sitting in leading position. On aspect of Monkey head mushroom (Lion's mane mushroom), Mudanjiang City wins 155 million bags of gross capacity and acquires 93,000 tons of gross output.

An interesting movie how Kompostpal is producing the base for growing mushrooms

Demand from customers in picking efficiency and developments in the picking business have got us thinking to provide a solution. Safety becomes an important value in the workplace due to increased labour inspections.

Therefore we have developed the Compact+ Picking Lorrie. This was done together with a Dutch grower. His search was simple:
“A picking lorrie which is worker friendly.” In the existing market he couldn’t find this solution. So together with Mush Comb this innovation was started. The picking lorrie is specifically designed to improve the efficiency of picking. A very strong focus is user friendliness, this in combination with comfort of working and high safety.

The first Picking Lorries have been put into practice and proven their effectiveness. Our goal is to supply more customers with our Compact+ Picking Lorrie to grow their business now and in the future.

For more information please visit the website of Mush Comb.

Vullings Systemen announced an open day on February 1st and February 2nd at Vullings. They also informed you about the new production hall, which is being constructed at the moment. Due to the activities and safety in relation with this construction, they have decided to reschedule these open days, which will be held on April 5th and April 6th.

Save one of these dates if you want to be inspired and if you would like to know the latest developments concerning water supply in the mushroom industry. You will be invited soon!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact them.

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The board of the Mushroomdays Foundation announced on 30 December that the next edition of the largest global mushroom tradeshow ‘The Mushroom Days’ in The Netherlands, will be held on 22-23-24 May 2019. The location for it remains ‘The Brabanthallen’ in ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

The board concluded from the questionnaires sent out to the participants and the visitors that the set up and the formula meet their demands fully and will therefore be continued in the same way. The results of the questionnaires can be found on www.mushroomdays.com. “Mushroomdays 2016 has been a special one, as it was combined with the 19th ISMS-conference to form a massive week on mushrooms for 3.500 people involved in the global mushroom industry”, said the board.

The visitors of the Mushroom Days have a preference for a next edition in 2018, as where the exhibitors strongly prefer 2019. After consulting the exhibitors, the board of the Mushroom Days Foundation decided in favour of 2019 and it was decided that another evaluation will be made after the 2019 edition, to decide the date for the edition after that. Exhibitors as well as organizers are aiming to continue the Mushroom Days as an event not to be missed on the international agenda.


Source: Mushroom Business