Lentinus edodes props up the dream of becoming rich

A returned overseas student, with a passion for entrepreneurship, has been crawling in the world of Lentinus edodes for six years. Now, she not only leads the surrounding villagers to become rich, but also blazes a new way of cross-regional management. This issue of Industry Weekly will take you to Dong Wei, chairman of China bacteria Industry Co., Ltd., and listen to her little-known entrepreneurial story.

Have a dream

Embark on a new journey

In 2008, Dong Wei, who was successful in his studies in Canada, resolutely returned home. After various investigations, he sprouted the idea of planting edible fungi and starting his own business. It is difficult to start a business, and Dong Wei is extremely busy with the countless trifles involved. In order to choose the site of the factory, she ran through more than 10 towns and townships and nearly 100 villages in the region with pregnancy, but finally chose Wangshishan Village, Miaocheng Town, Huairou District as the planting base. Then she devoted herself non-stop to the work of buying materials and building greenhouses.

Growing mushrooms requires special care, humidity and temperature should be well mastered. During her pregnancy, she devoted herself to the study in the greenhouse from morning till night in order to avoid mistakes in mushroom planting. If you encounter technical problems in the process of planting, you will check the materials and look for books. If you can't solve the problems yourself, you will go to agricultural universities or even farther away to seek expert advice. In less than a year, the first batch of mushrooms she planted finally came out of the shed. In order to lead more farmers to plant mushrooms, in 2009, she established the Beijing Senhai Edible Mushroom planting Professional Cooperative.

After the establishment of the cooperative, Dong Wei led the cooperative staff to take science and technology as the forerunner. After communication and research with experts, Dong Wei experimentally promoted the "New 20 Lentinus edodes." In order to increase output value and farmers' income, she set up a deep processing workshop through two new production lines in the cooperative, overcame the scientific and technological difficulties of drying, quick-freezing, and fresh-keeping of Lentinus edodes, and turned the newly picked Lentinus edodes into powder and foam for public health care and food. As a result, the cooperative has become a leading enterprise integrating strain research and development, bacterial stick production, fresh mushroom sales and deep processing. In 2012, the shiitake mushrooms they produced were certified as organic fresh mushrooms by Nanjing Guohuan Organic, and participated in the Beijing Edible Mushroom High yield Competition and won the first prize. She also won the title of "Edible Mushroom planting expert" issued by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture.

Innovation mode

Establish a long-term mechanism

With the base

Bring rich neighbors

In 2010, the national price of fresh mushrooms continued to rise, coupled with the base production of fresh shiitake mushrooms of good quality, positive color, good taste, favored by the market, selling 8-10 yuan per kilogram. What is more valuable is that by setting up a greenhouse to plant Lentinus edodes, the output value of each mu of land has reached 70,000 yuan and the profit has reached 30,000 yuan. This has undoubtedly opened up a new way for farmers to increase their income and become rich in the agricultural field with large population and little land in the suburbs of Beijing.

In the face of good market demand, Dong Wei takes advantage of the situation. Using the knowledge she learned abroad, combined with the production practice of Lentinus edodes cultivation, she constantly innovated the cultivation technology of edible fungi. And the use of these technologies, the cooperative has been rapid development. The number of members has also grown from more than a dozen to 150, and has more than 400 steel sheds. The service radius of the headquarters base has expanded from the farmers of Wang Shishan to the farmers of Li Shishan, Beishi trough, Yang Song and other villages. The net income of rural households joining the community has increased from 5000 yuan to more than 20000 yuan. The planting area of edible fungi has also increased from more than 500mu to more than 1000 mu now.

Cui Shibin in Beifang Village is a farmer with only more than 1.5 meters. He is a man of small strength, and hard work is not his strong suit. But this man is nimble and easy to study. After entering the Lentinus edodes planting base in 2009, he has studied hard and studied hard. Over the past few years, he has skillfully mastered a full set of techniques for the cultivation of Lentinus edodes, such as stick-making, sterilization, inoculation, sterilization, color conversion, bag removal, water spraying and so on. In the past two years, while completing the management tasks assigned to him by the company, he has also developed 15 greenhouses himself, generating an annual income of more than 300000 yuan. It has become a typical example of getting rich with small aspirations in the cooperative. In the mushroom planting base of the fungus industry, there are many examples like this.

To be quiet and far away

Draw a new blueprint

From the first day of its establishment, the company has taken the express train of modern urban facility agriculture and stepped into the development track of relying on the capital and radiating the surrounding provinces and cities. In 2011, the company started from a 700 mu out-of-town planting base and began to enter the Chengde market in Hebei Province. over the past few years, Lentinus edodes has been planted in more than 20 villages in Fengning, paddock, Xinglong and other four counties in Chengde. They adopted the model of companies + cooperatives + farmers, developed more than 3000 mu of shiitake mushroom cultivation, attracted nearly 1,000 local farmers to engage in Lentinus edodes production, promoted the employment of more than 1500 local rural surplus labor force, and promoted the integrated economic development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. According to statistics, this measure can create 120 million yuan of economic benefits for Chengde area every year. Moreover, through the establishment of a shiitake mushroom planting base in Chengde, it has also attracted some Hebei college students to participate in the construction of the shiitake mushroom base. after several years of training, Li Chenxu, Li Wenguo, Liu Haibin and others have become leading figures in the cultivation and marketing of shiitake mushrooms in Chengde.

With the expansion of the company's scale and the increase of Lentinus edodes production, the company's external influence is becoming more and more obvious. Every peak season, the base sells as many as 30,000 kilograms of fresh shiitake mushrooms every day. in addition to supplying the five major farmers' markets in Beijing, businessmen from Shouguang in Shandong and Zhengzhou in Henan also drive large trucks directly to the base where the company is located to buy goods. For a time, the company's business is booming, merchants are gathering, and the marketing radius is also expanding.

Dong Wei is like this, while expanding and strengthening the shiitake mushroom industry, he has also enriched the common people and cultivated a number of experts in the cultivation of Lentinus edodes. It is with these outstanding contributions that Dong Wei has successively won many honorary titles such as the leader of the national women's prosperity and the leader of science popularization in Beijing. The Wang Shishan Lentinus edodes planting base founded by her has also won the first prize of the National Women's Modern Agricultural Science and Technology demonstration Base and the Beijing Agricultural Technology extension Station.

Along the way, hardship and success go hand in hand, flowers and honor encourage. Dong Wei said frankly: in the future entrepreneurial road, she will strengthen confidence, overcome difficulties, and move forward forever until she reaches the other side of new success.