On harvest day, officers and soldiers gently and carefully hold each cluster of mushrooms and place them in the basket, the hyacinth-shaped mushroom caps full of vitality. With 4,000 clean, good quality mushroom spawns, the 5th harvest in 2025 will yield more than 60kg.

The 29th Company's gray oyster mushroom growing area is made use of from the unit's old barracks, about 50 square meters wide. Based on research on the growth characteristics of this type of mushroom, the unit carefully renovated, covered, cleaned and disinfected, ensuring temperature, humidity and light conditions for the mushrooms to grow and produce the best finished product. Inside the mushroom growing area, there are 9 horizontal racks for storing spawn, scientifically distributing space, meeting the necessary conditions for the care, development and harvesting process.

Harvesting gray oyster mushrooms at Company 29, Logistics-Technical Department, Division 7.

Major Nguyen Hoang Nam, Captain of Company 29, said: Grey oyster mushrooms are also known as tough mushrooms or oyster mushrooms. This type of mushroom has a relatively high protein content and contains many nutrients that are beneficial to the body. Taking care of grey oyster mushrooms is not complicated, but must be very meticulous. When opening the spawn cover for the mushrooms to grow, the timing must be precise, the method of inoculation, watering, and harvesting methods must all be given technical instructions in advance to avoid damaging the spawn and mushrooms.

This is a type of mushroom that can be harvested all year round. After harvesting the mushrooms, you must scrape off the roots inside, cover the mouth tightly, continue to incubate the embryo well, about 2 weeks later, inoculate the seeds, open the embryo to let the mushrooms grow. If well cared for, each embryo will yield 300-400 grams of mushrooms after about 5-7 harvests.

Since the beginning of 2025, after 5 harvests, the total output of gray oyster mushrooms of Company 29 has reached 320 kg, with good quality. According to the market price of 37,000 VND/kg, after deducting output and input costs, the unit has a stable source of income to put into the capital fund, further improving the lives of soldiers, and the brothers in the unit are very excited. Moreover, this is a clean product, good for health, so many soldiers in the Division love it and often contact to buy it for daily meals at home and many small traders contact to ensure output for the product.

Looking at the mushrooms growing crowdedly covering the mouth of the embryo, the mushroom caps thin and wide, the edges slightly curled down, at the most beautiful stage, we feel that this is the result of the determination to innovate and dare to take the lead of Company 29. To achieve this result is a long process, through many changes in methods, care techniques, and embryo creation to be suitable and high yield. Besides learning about planting and care techniques from books, newspapers, and social networks, many soldiers, when taking advantage of time off to visit their families, will visit large local mushroom farms to learn from experience.

Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Dinh Kien, Head of Logistics and Engineering of Division 7, affirmed that the model of growing gray oyster mushrooms of Company 29 shows that the unit's logistics work has many innovations and creativity in accordance with the unit's production characteristics. The Division Commander is very interested and creates favorable conditions, encouraging the brothers to implement. In the coming time, the Division will have directions for other units to visit, learn and encourage replication, contributing to making production work have a steady step forward, increasingly better ensuring and improving the quality of soldiers' lives.

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