On 5th, Nov, trial Black fungus cultivation carried out in Qingxi Village, Tianzhu County, Guizhou Province of China realized its success, the first flush of fungi began to usher its harvest time and daily picking volume reached 200 kg or so.

According to know, Qingxi Village holds the planned area of over 100 mu on its mushroom project, in line with scientific mode and the expected fund of 4.9 million CNY, annual mushroom capacity reaches 1.4 million sticks. Within the village, 889,000 CNY of investment has been raised on establishment of 8 mushroom greenhouses and 1 demonstrative Black fungus site that covers 5 mu, and annual average incomes go up to above 7000 CNY per poor household.

Over the years, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province of China has been fully excavating the comprehensive utilization value of straws, a series of aspects such as field-returning of straws, grass and forage processing, biomass fuel have already taken shape.

According to know, Mr. Yi, principal of mushroom cooperative in Xinglong Town, Gualin Village, contracted nearly 10 mu of land two years ago and launched into mushroom cultivation via waste straws.

“Shimeji mushroom is the characteristic in the cooperative, its raw ingredients include wheat straws, rice straws and cotton seeds. In general, at least 1500 kg of mushroom could be produced via 1 ton of straws while output value reaches 3000-5000 CNY per ton. After the harvest, mushrooms could not only be sold to local markets, but also are processed into salted mushrooms,” introduces Mr. Yi excitedly, continuing that the cooperative provides 30-40 posts for local villagers, daily per capita income totals 150 CNY per and annual consumption on straw obtains hundred of tons.

After the graduation in 2015, Mr. Wu returned to his hometown and embarked on Shiitake cultivation in Ziran Village, Fugu County, Shanxi Province of China, now, he is gradually transforming from cave mode to large-scale cultivation, under his leadership, more and more villagers have been driven to join in Shiitake cultivation.

“Through repeated investigation, i decided to launch Shiitake cultivation, and in view of waste caves which hold the characteristic of warm in winter and cool in summer, i settled the cultivation site,” introduces Mr. Wu passionately, say that along with the development of cave-mode Shiitake cultivation, he became aware that small storage content in caves goes against with large-scale cultivation, then he started to raise fund and build mushroom greenhouses, which facilitates expanding the scale as well as enhancing convenient management.

Since last year, Mr. Wu has been successively raising 2.8 million CNY on establishment of 12 fruiting greenhouses and 3 cultivation greenhouses which cover 26 mu of land in total. Now, 200,000 mushroom bags could be stored into the greenhouses, fruiting amount obtains 300,000 kg and annual sales volume attains over 3 million CNY.

Recently, mushroom project of Jiangsu Lvxian Biotechnology Garden was formally put into construction in Haizhou Village, Tuojiang Town, Hunan Province of China.

According to know, the project holds the gross investment of 50 million CNY, in March, it will be put into production after the completion, at that time, the anticipated annual output on Oyster mushroom, Bamboo fungus, Pleurotus geesteranus, Pleurotus cornucopiae and other mushrooms could reach 3 million bags, annual output value obtains 20 million CNY while nearly 300 people could be leaded to embark on mushroom industry and earn considerable incomes.

According to statistics from Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Hubei Province of China, from Jan to Oct, mushroom export of the province reached 977 million USD, with a year-on-year growth of 34%, which exceeded gross export value of all year in 2016 and manifested substantial growth after successive 3 years of low export ebb.

“Since this year, apart from stable and satisfactory Southeast Asian markets, markets of Seattle have been exploited while direct customs clearance of over 10 export containers was realized,” introduces general manager of Hubei Pinyuan Mushroom Co., LTD in excitement.

Mushroom is the largest agricultural product for export in Hubei Province of China, within the province, there are 200 mushroom processing enterprises and over 1.5 million people engaging in mushroom industry.

Recently, trial mushroom cultivation implemented in the first semi-industrial mushroom base of Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province of China realized its fruitful results, picking period has been maintained for nearly 20 days.

Through repeated visiting and investigation, principal of the base learned about the cultivation technology of industrialized mushroom. By building galvanized steel frames, installing humidifiers and exhaust fans, original refrigeration house was transformed into a semi-industrial mushroom base, and anniversary mushroom production could be achieved there through the adjustment on temperature, humidity and concentration of carbon dioxide.

“In equivalent production area, mushroom output came to 1.5kg per square feet within 15 days of trial cultivation period, which equals to the fruiting amount by traditional mode for 8 months totaling 240 days,” introduces principal of the base passionately, going on that this cultivation mode facilitates realizing labor saving, automatic adjustment of temperature and humidity on aspect of production technology, and it is a discovery and practice that promote the transformation and upgrading of local mushroom cultivation.

The promotion of semi-industrial mushroom cultivation will also provide a good break point for development bottlenecks that restrict local mushroom industry in aspect of labor shortage, low comprehensive benefit and seasonal production, and exploit a more scientific development road for local mushroom growers to increase revenues.