Little mushrooms prop up the blue sky to become rich

Nanling County, Anhui Province is known as "Wuhu Rice Market and Nanling Granary". While producing a large amount of rice, it also produces a large number of appendages of rice straw. In the past, farmers often set fire to it, which not only polluted the atmospheric environment, but also aggravated the alkalinity of the soil, which was not conducive to the growth of rice. How to turn this rich rice straw resource advantage into an industrial advantage? Nanling County, Anhui Province, making use of the advantage of rich local rice straw resources and labor resources, aims at the development of this characteristic industry of edible fungi, and supports it in terms of policy, technical guidance and funds. with the help of funds, it has formed an one-stop industrial chain of seed production, production, processing, @ # @ 136 industries @, and achieved remarkable economic benefits.

When it comes to the development of Nanling edible mushroom industry, it is not so plain sailing. Just when the farmers were tasting the benefits and developing mushrooms with great fanfare, due to the influence of the market situation, the benefit of planting mushrooms by farmers once declined, and the area was reduced by hundreds of thousands of square feet. Even the mushroom greenhouse contracted by Fujian merchants in Nanling also gave up on its own, and the mushroom industry that had just begun was about to die. In order to stabilize mushroom production, on the one hand, the county party committee and government encourage capable people to continue to grow mushrooms, on the other hand, they try every means to help mushroom farmers reduce production costs and expand market sales. In 2001, Zhu Guoqing, a former villager of Dongtang Township, planted four greenhouses, made a profit of more than 80,000 yuan that year, and helped mushroom farmers sell 150 tons of mushrooms. With the encouragement of the government, Zhu Guoqing invested tens of thousands of yuan to set up a saltwater mushroom processing plant, avoiding the loss of rotten mushrooms from nearby mushroom farmers. Then, through multi-contact, he attracted Lin Chaotian, a businessman from Fuding City, Fujian Province, to invest more than 400,000 yuan to set up a bacteria factory to cultivate bacteria with high output and good quality to supply surrounding farmers, so as to reduce the production cost increased by long-distance trafficking and introduction from Fujian.

In order to promote the rapid development of the edible mushroom industry, the county has adopted the working policy of "government promotion, enterprise pull, association promotion, and base drive" to set up an edible mushroom association, which provides a series of services such as strain supply, production technical guidance, and post-natal sales for farmers, and sets up a 1 million yuan edible mushroom industry development and risk relief fund to help mushroom farmers improve their anti-risk ability. For farmers who want to develop edible fungi, all towns formulate preferential policies, coordinate the funds, and give incentives according to the area of development. Using the financial funds to support agriculture, the scientific and technological demonstration base of edible fungi in Nanling County was established to train the mushroom farmers in the county, so as to gradually realize the transition from seasonal production to weekly production. At the same time, in order to expand the market and solve the worries of mushroom farmers' mushroom sales, in addition to establishing a marketing team of hundreds of people, but also through attracting investment to introduce Annan, Jiufa and other leading enterprises of agricultural industrialization, with an annual processing of nearly 10,000 tons of edible fungi.

With policy support, leading drive and industrial extension, Nanling edible fungi have shown a trend of vigorous development, which has now covered 8 towns in the county. On the basis of focusing on the development of high-quality double-spore mushrooms, supporting the development of Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, fungus, rare bacteria and other varieties. This year, the planting area of double spore mushrooms has increased by more than 3 million square feet, and the small mushrooms really prop up a blue sky for farmers to get rich.