Longyou farmer couple are bold enough to hire a master to plant shiitake mushrooms with an annual salary of 70,000 yuan.

On March 19, the sun was shining brightly. In the shiitake greenhouse in Chen Baolin, Wang Family Natural Village, Shifo Township, Longyou County, the mushroom bags in the ridges were packed with mushrooms of different sizes. Some were already big and full, while others showed sharp corners. The unique fragrance in the greenhouse attracted passers-by to stop. "if it hadn't been frozen a year ago, it could have grown better." Chen Baolin sighed with regret.

Two years ago, Chen Baolin and his wife Wang Ganfeng were outsiders in the cultivation of Lentinus edodes. Now the couple have become "mushroom experts." However, for this title, Wang Ganfeng waved her hand and said, "I spend money to learn the skill day by day."

Wang Ganfeng and his wife have been in the vegetable wholesale business in Guangzhou for more than 10 years. After returning to their hometown, they plan to grow shiitake mushrooms. In the spring of 2014, they rushed to Jinyun in Lishui to learn lessons and followed a local mushroom agronomy for half a month, but because growing Lentinus edodes involved many links, there was not enough time, and the couple were ruthless. They did a thing that many farmers dare not do-- hire a master who grows shiitake mushrooms at an annual salary of 70,000 yuan.

In May of the same year, the master followed the couple to the Stone Buddha. When some people in the village heard about this, they all said that the couple were too bold and that they had not planted a mushroom, but they spent so much money to hire a technician. In fact, compared with the monthly salary of 6000 yuan for the master, Wang Ganfeng and his wife have already calculated that if the cultivation of 15 mu of shiitake mushrooms fails, it may cause a loss of more than 200,000 yuan, but with a technician, the situation is different.

The master and his wife eat and live together and work in the fields together, sawdust quality, strain control, raw material bagging, high temperature fumigation, inoculation and fermentation, disinfection and sterilization, temperature control, management and protection during picking period. Because of the teacher's instruction, the husband and wife did everything in an orderly way. For example, in the process of high-temperature fumigation, the raw materials must be bagged in a high-temperature furnace and steamed with steam for 72 hours. Less than this time, the mushroom bag is not easy to sprout, but the time is too long, and the mushroom grows easily. The most important thing is that the process of controlling the heat is particularly difficult to control. "fortunately, the master is around, so we are not afraid."

"the temperature should be controlled between 25 and 28 degrees Celsius, and the disinfection and sterilization should be thorough." In December last year, the master returned to Lishui, but Chen Baolin and his wife did not panic. "We have mastered at least 90% of the skills." Wang Ganfeng is very proud. She says that now they have planted two varieties of high-temperature mushrooms and water mushrooms, with a net profit of about 15000 per mu. "they sell them all the year round, mainly wholesale in the local market." During the peak season, about 2000 kilograms of shiitake mushrooms are wholesale in one day, accounting for nearly half of the Longyou market.