Dictyophora planted in bamboo forest in Naxi, Sichuan

On December 13, the author walked into the bamboo shoot planting base in Huihu Village, Baijie Town, Naxi District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, and saw patches of white agricultural film covering the newly planted bamboo shoot everywhere on the glade in the bamboo forest.

"the bacteria sown in late September have already emitted 98% of their hyphae and are growing very well." The grower first opened the film and said, "We have adopted the method of digging out nests and planting in the bamboo forest." In June this year, under the guidance of local technicians in Naxi District, he transferred 150 mu of bamboo forest to grow bamboo shoot in the village. As long as the nest is covered with rice chaff, then sprinkled with Dictyophora fungus in proportion, then covered with soil and covered with plastic film, you can wait for the harvest.

"planting Dictyophora under the forest saves not only land, but also costs and increases farmers' income." Chen Yongfu, director of the economic station in Naxi District, told me that this year, Naxi District began to promote the large-scale interplanting of Dictyophora under the bamboo forest, effectively solving the "fungus field contradiction" in the production of edible fungi. He said: at present, artificial cultivation of Dictyophora is mainly planted in field sheds, and shade sheds need to be built, and Dictyophora cannot be planted continuously, and generally planted fields have to be rotated for more than three years before they can be used as cultivation sites for Dictyophora again, resulting in a waste of cultivated land resources to some extent. Interplanting Dictyophora under the bamboo forest not only saves the cultivated land resources and the labor of building the shade shed, but also increases the efficiency obviously. At the same time, the return of cultivated waste bacterial bran to the land can increase soil organic matter and improve soil structure.

Xian Ligui said: according to the income-increasing technology of interplanting Phyllostachys pubescens in other places, 350kg of fresh Dictyophora and 70kg of dried Dictyophora can be harvested per mu of land. According to the calculation of 400 yuan per kilogram of dried Dictyophora, the income per mu can be 28000 yuan. Farmers can make a net profit of about 15000 yuan.

"although Dictyophora has high economic value, the cost of planting Dictyophora is also very high. It costs nearly 10,000 yuan per mu of land, which may deter some farmers." Xian Ligui said that based on this situation, he adopted the "company (cooperative) + peasant household" model to develop bamboo shoot planting. "because Dictyophora cannot be planted continuously, the next step is to develop together with the cultivation of Chinese medicinal materials under the forest, so as to give full play to the maximum economic benefits of bamboo forests, so that more farmers can embark on the new way of increasing their income and getting rich by bamboo as soon as possible."