( Quang Ngai Newspaper) - For more than 2 years now, the gray oyster mushroom product of Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoang Tho, in Tinh Phu Bac village, Hanh Minh commune (Nghia Hanh), has been favored by many customers. Ms. Tho's startup model has initially brought about efficiency, creating jobs for many local workers.
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| Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoang Tho harvests gray oyster mushrooms. |
Before starting her mushroom growing career, Ms. Tho had worked in an office. The turning point came when a relative gave her and her husband a book about mushrooms. After reading this book, she realized that mushrooms are rich in nutrients, good for health and produced "cleanly", so she was very enthusiastic, started to learn and practice.
In 2019, Ms. Tho and her husband invested in a mushroom farm at home and chose oyster mushrooms as their startup product. Ms. Tho shared that starting a business is a difficult process that requires patience, experience, knowledge and hard work. Although I failed many times, I still persevered, learned and found out the reason why the mushroom yield was not high.
Just like that, working and gaining experience, the couple's harvest is quality mushrooms. In 2022, Tho and her husband decided to invest 2 billion VND to open a mushroom farm with an area of over 1,000m2, divided into 6 growing houses, with a total of 30,000 mushroom spawns. Each mushroom spawn can be harvested 6-8 times.
Ms. Tho said that to ensure the quality of the embryos, the couple made and checked all the production stages themselves. First, they selected sawdust, then mixed yeast, incubated the embryos, put them in the spawn, and mounted them on the mushroom rack. In addition, the autoclave must be sterilized at 1000C, the tissue culture area must meet the standards with the requirement of being airtight and having equipment to destroy wild mushroom spores. The silk incubation and cultivation area must be well-ventilated, and the temperature in the mushroom farm must always be kept at 25 - 300C.
Ms. Tho shared that to grow mushrooms with high productivity and quality, growers must have experience and master the techniques. Up to now, although they have accumulated a lot of experience and the mushroom yield meets the requirements, she and her husband still constantly learn and improve mushroom growing techniques. Thanks to that, the mushroom products they make are trusted by many customers because the mushrooms are of high quality, the mushroom caps are large, firm, and have a sweet and aromatic taste. They harvest twice a month on the 1st and 15th (lunar calendar). Each harvest is from 500 - 700kg of mushrooms.
In addition to retailing to local customers, she also sells wholesale at the market at prices ranging from 50,000 to 55,000 VND/kg, depending on the time. After the mushrooms are harvested, the bags of spawn are resold to grow straw mushrooms. Thanks to that, Ms. Tho's agricultural model is very environmentally friendly.
“Gray oyster mushrooms are often infected with blue mold, which is highly contagious. If the disease is detected, the spawn bag will have to be discarded. Therefore, after each mushroom harvest, I have to disinfect, wash and dry the substrate to ensure safety for the next production,” said Ms. Tho.
Ms. Tho's mushroom farm has created regular jobs for 7 local workers, with an income of 4.5 - 5 million VND/person/month. In the coming time, Ms. Tho hopes to access preferential loans to invest in machinery, apply science and technology to the mushroom growing process, grow more types of mushrooms and expand the production scale of gray oyster mushroom spawn to supply to mushroom farms in and outside the province. At the same time, instructing mushroom growing techniques for households in need, to develop the economy together, creating a source of clean mushrooms to supply the market.
Vice Chairman of Hanh Minh Commune People's Committee Nguyen Thi Nhat Le said that to support Ms. Tho, in the coming time, the locality will coordinate with functional agencies in the district and province to register OCOP products for gray oyster mushrooms; at the same time, create conditions and connect capital sources for Ms. Tho to expand production and increase product value.
Article and photos: TRUNG AN
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