Yen Thanh: Preparing straw mushroom supply for Tet
(Baonghean.vn) - Currently, straw mushroom production facilities in Yen Thanh district are focusing on taking care of them in time to harvest and provide clean food sources for the market during Tet.
Taking advantage of the dry straw after harvesting summer-autumn rice, in December (lunar calendar), the Son Hanh mushroom production cooperative in Son Thanh hamlet, Nam Thanh commune focused on investing in the production of 3 types of products: button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and wood ear mushrooms to sell about 4 tons of fresh products to the market during Tet.
This is one of the production facilities that has just been granted a certificate by the Nghe An Department of Health recognizing that its mushroom products meet food safety and hygiene standards. Thanks to strict adherence to technical procedures from raw material processing, incubation, seeding, care and mushroom harvesting, in the past 8 months, this facility has produced 9 tons of fresh mushrooms and created regular jobs for 10 workers, with each worker earning a stable income of 80,000 to 100,000 VND/day.
Yen Thanh farmers produce mushrooms
Photo: Khanh Ly
The project has only been implemented for nearly a year, but up to now, in Yen Thanh district, there are 49 production households in 6 communes, of which 19 households have built large-scale camps, 9 households have sterilization ovens. In 2011, the whole district produced 80 tons of fresh mushrooms including: wood ear mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, button mushrooms, lingzhi mushrooms... worth 2.4 billion VND. In addition to creating regular jobs for 230 workers during the off-season, most of the straw and stubble after harvest has been used for mushroom production, and the waste residue has been processed into organic fertilizer for cultivation.
It can be said that this is a low-cost, fast-turnover, easy-to-do business, and the products are easy to sell. In Yen Thanh, many households have escaped poverty and started to get rich from mushroom growing. To prepare supplies for the Lunar New Year, mushroom production facilities across the district have prepared dozens of tons of dry straw for production, expected to supply nearly 40 tons of fresh mushrooms of all kinds to the market inside and outside the district.
According to the current selling price, one kilogram of button mushrooms costs from 27,000 to 30,000 VND, and oyster mushrooms from 22,000 to 25,000 VND/kg. In addition to supplying to local people, many large restaurants outside the district and supermarkets in Vinh City have come to Yen Thanh to sign contracts and receive product purchases during Tet.
The implementation of the project to develop mushroom cultivation in Yen Thanh district is a new direction, aiming to gradually break the monoculture in agricultural production. With the strength of a purely agricultural district, abundant in post-harvest raw materials, in 2012 Yen Thanh district is continuing to apply a number of mechanisms and policies to support seeds, creating conditions for households in need to rent land to build camps, establish groups, production enterprises and consume products.
In the immediate future, the district will invest in building a seedling nursery to be proactive in production, reducing costs for farmers. The goal is that by the end of the year, the mushroom industry will be officially deployed widely in the district, with an output of 800 tons of fresh mushrooms, worth 15 billion VND, as a premise for development in the following years, contributing to increasing income for farmers.
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