People's Daily reporter Wang Ruihua.
Before and after the beginning of spring, everything recovered, and since then there has been spring. The mushroom base of the Struggle Edible Mushroom Professional Cooperative Association in Nanling County, Wuhu City, is a bumper harvest scene.
Shiitake mushrooms are growing well. Photo by People's Daily reporter Li Ximeng.
Walking into the mushroom greenhouse, you can smell the refreshing mushroom fragrance. On the seven-storey mushroom shelf, the "little shiitake mushrooms" stretch out the umbrella-shaped caps from the mushroom sticks, which are either sparse or dense, and the growth is gratifying. Taking advantage of the good weather, mushroom farmers are busy picking, sorting, and loading baskets, **market.
Speaking of the Nanling County Struggle Edible Mushroom Professional Cooperative Association, there is still a small background, and the past alone, the association was established in 2022 by the three villages of Tianguan, Hongxing and Daihui in Gongshan Town, and currently covers an area of more than 5,500 square meters, with a total of 15 greenhouses.
Each village has set up a party organization to lead the cooperative, but how to strengthen the village collective economy and drive the villagers to increase their income and become rich is a common issue facing the three villages.
Mushroom farmers harvest fresh mushrooms in greenhouses. Photo by People's Daily reporter Li Ximeng.
At first, I also thought about developing vegetables and farming, but due to immature technology, we could not reach a consensus. Wang Rongsi, secretary of the general party branch and director of the village committee of Daihui Village, said frankly that after seeing the mushroom industry in Jishan Town, he went to learn from the experience, and then hit it off, and chose a barren mountain land bordering three villages to build greenhouses and grow mushrooms.
In this way, the shiitake mushrooms took root in Gongshan Town, and the sheds were built and harvested that year, and there were profits that year.
After more than a year of development, now, the base is not worried about the lack of fungus sticks, not worried about the yield, and not worried about the lack of sales, farmers will take care of the mushroom sticks after taking care of the greenhouse, 10 days, clusters of fleshy mushrooms can hold up a "rich umbrella".
Mushroom farmers are busy loading baskets of freshly harvested shiitake mushrooms. Photo by People's Daily reporter Li Ximeng.
A shed is about 400 square meters, and it can place 1 fungus stickAbout 60,000 sticks, each mushroom stick can pick 3 to 5 catties of fresh mushrooms, and the picking cycle can last for 6 months. Speaking of mushrooms, Wang Rongsi is like a few treasures, he told reporters, before the Spring Festival, can pick more than 100 baskets of mushrooms every day, a day is four or five thousand catties, the seller directly to the door, saving time and trouble.
As he spoke, a box truck with a Zhejiang K license plate stopped steadily outside the mushroom shed. Quan Qingsong, the seller, opened the car door after pulling the handbrake, and when he saw Wang Rongsi, he asked, "Can you go in the afternoon?" This trip is 260 baskets and sent directly to Lishui. ”
No problem, I promise not to delay, I am picking miles in the shed! Wang Rongsi responded, "It's all freshly picked fresh mushrooms, and you can't stock up on them in the cold storage." ”
Fresh mushrooms are on the market. Photo by People's Daily reporter Li Ximeng.
You must know that since the mushrooms have been on the market this season, the base greenhouse has become the most lively place in the village.
64-year-old Wang Siyi, who has been working abroad in the past, became the technical administrator of the mushroom base after returning to his hometown in 2022. "Come over at 7 o'clock in the morning every day, the first thing I do when I arrive at the base is to measure the temperature, check the humidity, and be responsible for the ventilation and insulation of the greenhouse. ”
The humidity should not exceed 70%, the temperature should not exceed 25 degrees, and the most suitable growth temperature is about 10 degrees Celsius......Although he is not from a professional class, he can hear that Wang Siyi has become an "expert" in growing shiitake mushrooms in the village.
Shiitake mushrooms have high requirements for temperature, humidity and light intensity, and after the mushroom stick enters the shed, it is necessary to pay attention to the environment in the shed at all times to ensure the smooth mushroom production of the mushroom stick," Wang Siyi said while picking a plump and patterned mushroom from the mushroom stick, "This is the mushroom, it needs moderate sun exposure to naturally 'flower', because the mushroom is thin and in good condition, so it is particularly popular in the market, and when the price is good, 1 catty can be sold for 7 yuan." ”
Fresh mushrooms in baskets ready to be shipped. Photo by People's Daily reporter Li Ximeng.
Nowadays, shiitake mushrooms have become a magic weapon for Gongshan Town to help farmers increase income and get rich, and the market not only covers Wuhu, Xuancheng and other surrounding cities, but also exports to Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other Yangtze River Delta markets.
At present, the development of the base is mainly based on the production of fresh mushrooms, which is limited by the facility technology, and can only be busy for half a year and half a year. Wang Rongsi told reporters that at present, a new smart constant temperature greenhouse is being built, which can ensure that there are mushrooms to be picked all year round, and in the future, it is planned to develop deep-processed products such as mushroom crisp and mushroom sauce, so that rural revitalization is more motivated, and villagers have more "mushroom" power to increase income.