The Wealth of Lentinus edodes from a rural boy in Xichuan

In the Mushroom Source Edible Mushroom Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Xichuan County, Nanyang City, Qi Jinbo, the founder of the simple and capable cooperative, is busy packing mushroom bags with the villagers. for more than 10 years, Qi Jinbo has embarked on an entrepreneurial road leading farmers to become rich with diligence and wisdom, making small shiitake mushrooms a big industry to become rich.

In 2000, Qi Jinbo accidentally read about the mushroom production and enrichment project in the newspaper, and came up with the idea of cultivating edible fungi. He successively visited teachers inside and outside the province to learn skills, specializing in the cultivation techniques of Lentinus edodes and Gastrodia elata. In 2001, Qi Jinbo collected, separated, domesticated, cultivated and trial-produced Lentinus edodes, and made a profit of more than 20,000 yuan that year. Through several years of practice and exploration, the production scale has been continuously expanded and new products have been developed one after another. Xichuan County Edible Fungi Research Institute, Xichuan County Nongjiale Edible Fungi Technical consultation Center, Nanyang Shengyuan Agricultural and sideline products Network, Xichuan County Mushroom Source Edible Mushroom Farmers' Professional Cooperative, and registered the "Mushroom Source" trademark.

Qi Jinbo said: since the establishment of the Edible Mushroom Farmers' specialized Cooperative, it has always regarded technology introduction, popularization, and innovation as the foundation for survival, and has successively established long-term cooperative relations with the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences and some famous domestic edible fungus scientific research institutions. Some famous domestic edible fungus experts have been invited to give lectures and training, guide production, and have sent technical backbones to other places to visit and study many times to improve their quality. The cooperative holds a general meeting of its members once a quarter to discuss the production, sales and industrial development of edible fungi. We have implemented the working mechanism of "six unifications and three visits to households", that is, unified provision of bacteria, unified quality standards, unified technical services, unified trademarks, unified packaging, unified sales, technical training, technical guidance, and standardized production to households. Strictly ensure that the production is recorded, the flow direction is traceable, the information can be queried, and the safety is traceable. To ensure the safety and health of edible fungi, cooperatives registered "mushroom source" green pollution-free edible fungi brand awareness and influence continue to expand.

In order to open the edible mushroom sales market, Qi Jinbo and the technical backbone participated in the province and even the national edible mushroom fair many times, and established the Nanyang Shengyuan agricultural by-product network, which further broadened the sales channel. The cooperative has also reached agreements with a number of domestic supermarkets, signed agricultural super docking contracts, and made use of Shandong Shouguang vegetable trading platform to make some shiitake mushrooms sold abroad.

At present, the cooperative has 3 demonstration bases, cultivating the main varieties of Lentinus edodes, Gastrodia elata and Polyporus umbellatus. The number of members of the cooperative has also grown from seven to 108, and the dividend of the members has also increased from more than 5,000 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan, greatly arousing the enthusiasm of farmers to join the cooperative and driving the surrounding farmers to achieve common prosperity.

Make the mushroom source cooperative's technical counterpart support to the west become a bright spot of the cooperative. Qi Jinbo pro-lead mushroom source technical team successively reached agreements on technical cooperation with Shanlizhen Edible Mushroom Cooperative in Changwu County, Xianyang leading Edible Mushroom Co., Ltd., and Fangsheng Co., Ltd., Chongxin County, Gansu Province. the combination of strong and powerful forces has strongly promoted the development of local edible mushroom research and application, and laid the foundation for expanding the western edible mushroom industry.

Talking about the development of cooperatives, Qi Jinbo said that he hopes to let more people engage in the production of edible fungi through mushroom source cooperatives, so that small edible fungi can become a big industry to become rich.