For recent days, in mushroom base of Mazhuang Village, Rushanzhai Town, Shandong Province of China, Oyster mushrooms are vigorously popping heads out of sticks.
At the beginning of this year, Mazhuang Village took the lead on Oyster mushroom cultivation in a bid to lift comprehensive agricultural benefit and help the masses to end poverty and increase incomes.
“The mushroom project holds 412,000 CNY of gross investment, at first, hillside field that covers 12 mu of land was transformed on establishment of mushroom greenhouse. By the end of this year, the expected annual revenues come to 20,000 CNY,” said village director of Mazhuang Village passionately.

Gaoyi Village is the country of origin and main production origin of Flower mushroom in Qinyang County, Henan Province of China. Through years of development, now, scale of mushroom cultivation totals above 4000 mu, annual output on Shiitake reaches 100,000 tons and gross output value comes to over 400 million CNY.
The astounding advance of Shiitake production attracts many oversea clients for purchasing and transportation. Superior Shiitakes produced in Gaoyi Village are not only sold well in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other major cities in China, but also exported to Korea, Japan and other oversea nations and gain popularity.

Recently, in Shiitake base that covers 300 mu of land in Yuan’an County, Hubei Province of China, farmers have been busy with Shiitake picking.
According to know, the base builds cooperative relationship with Fungus Institute of Huazhong Agriculture University, and introduces rare mushroom strain. Now, the market price of each bag could go up to 6 CNY, which is double of average market price, by 2017, the expected sales income could also reach 20 million CNY.

Now, when you walk into Hebei Yuntai Mushroom Co., LTD, rows of high-standard modernized and industrialized mushroom houses starkly stand out. As the classic representative of industrialized mushroom production in Ningjin County, Hebei Province of China, Yuntai Company transforms mushroom production from traditional to industrialized mode, annual output reaches 7200 tons while output value obtains more than 60 million CNY.

Over the years, Ningjin County has been regarding mushroom industry as the key gripper that optimizes industrial structure and promotes farmers to increase incomes, till now, several industrialized fruiting bases have been established and products are sold well to Europe, Southeast Asia and other nations.

In 2016, gross mushroom output attained 55,000 tons, output value reached over 600 million CNY, gross export value came to 12 million CNY and over 20,000 people were driven to engage in mushroom industry in Ningjin County.

Recently, Mr. Wang Youyu, one of villagers as well as the principal of Youmei Shiitake Cooperative in Puling Village, Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province of China, has been engaged with Shiitake picking.

“Low temperature is evident during these day, average daily picking volume on fresh Shiitake comes to less than 200 kg while we used to pick over 700 kg during high-temperature days,” introduces Mr. Wang in passion.

According to know, last year, under the support and help of local village parties, Mr. Wang raised over 200,000 CNY on land lease of 4 mu, establishment of over 10 greenhouses and introduction of more than 30,000 Shiitake sticks. Under his elaborate management and protection, Shiitakes leaded satisfactory growth trend and won high output. By the end of last year, Shiitake sales came to nearly 260,000 CNY, after deducting all costs, profits obtained 60,000 CNY.

This year, Mr. Wang has newly built another 10 Shiitake greenhouses and raised 20,000 CNY on establishment of refrigeration house in a bid to save transportation expenses.

“After the maturation of cultivation technology and experience, i plan to expand production scale and lead more villagers and poor households to become prosperous via the industry,” said Mr. Wang excitedly.

1. Lift the temperature of fungus bed: In cold winter, mushroom cultivators should lift the temperature of fungus bed and create favorable fruiting temperature. Besides, they could additionally cover a layer of thin film outside the house, and cover straw mats or heat-prevention quilt at night.

2. Enhance the ventilation: During the bud stage, mushrooms lead vigorous breathing status, in that case, cultivators should inhibit the sediment of carbon dioxide while preventing the assault of cold wind in mushroom house. In general case, it is proper to ventilate the house around noon for 10-20 minutes so as to supplement fresh air.

3. Strengthen water-replenishing: After passing the growth of autumn, mushroom sticks such as Shiitake and Oyster mushroom loss water for 40%-50%, on that occasion, cultivators should immediately supplement moisture, before that, firstly ventilate the house for 3-4 days, and ideal water source is well water. Most importantly, be sure to spray more water on large amount of mushrooms and spray less on small amount, spray more during bud stage and reduce the amount during picking period.
 

Learned from Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Luoyang City, Henan Province of China, not long ago, 15.04 tons of dried Black fungi and 4.18 tons of dried Shiitake produced in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province of China were smoothly exported to Vietnam.

According to related principal in Luoyang Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, mushrooms produced in Pingdingshan City are always favored by mushroom pursuers in China. With the help of specially-assigned person from the bureau, Mushroom Quality Management System has been established while export record qualification has been acquired in a bid to promote the development of foreign trade of Pingdingshan City.

During 7th-13th, Nov, Sengong E-commerce Marketing Platform achieved sales volume of 13.353 million CNY, among all the products in field of green foods, tourism and forest products, Black fungi became the most popular variety and showed the salesroom of 7.32 million CNY, which powerfully pushed the transformation of forestry district and leaded local staffs to generate revenues.