Witnessing the mushroom farm
Entering the 250 m2 mushroom house of Quoc Khanh Farm in Hiep Thanh commune, which is harvesting at the end of the season to supply pre-orders, farm owner Nguyen Thi Linh said that this mushroom house has been harvested for more than 90 days, each day from 40 - 50 kg. Of which, most of the fresh mushroom products are consumed during the day; the remaining small part of the product is put into cold storage, supplying customers in the province. Harvesting every morning from 6:30 - 7:30, each mushroom bush is carefully picked up by hand, then the roots are cut off, packaged in half-kilogram sizes for wholesale and retail to distribution customers and direct domestic consumers. “Put the mushroom spawn in rows and hang them in a cold metal roof house, set up biological sticky traps to attract and destroy insects that “slip through the partition net”. Spray water daily with clean water pumped from a deep well underground. Take intensive care after a week and start harvesting continuously for up to 3 months before starting to produce new mushrooms…”, Farm owner Nguyen Thi Linh shared.
Similarly, the 200 m2 oyster mushroom house next door is entering the fourth month of harvest with a peak day of more than 50 kg. After harvesting this oyster mushroom crop, Quoc Khanh Farm switched to growing the hydrangea, hydrangea, ruby, and golden mushrooms in turn, then rotated back to growing oyster mushrooms. Stable rotation of 2 crops of edible mushrooms each year in all 8 mushroom houses of Quoc Khanh Farm, each mushroom house has an area of about 200 m2 . Accounting for the 100 m2 area of mushroom farming start-up in Hiep Thanh commune with investment capital for mushroom houses, equipment, seed spawn, and labor, totaling about 110 million VND. The first mushroom crop after 6 months of planting, caring, and harvesting yielded about 3.6 tons, multiplied by the average price of 30,000 VND/kg, resulting in a total revenue of 108 million VND. Thus, if edible mushrooms are produced according to technical requirements and linked with the chain, after 6 months, the initial investment capital will be almost fully recovered.
Closed production process
Especially with Da Lat red chi medicinal mushrooms, Quoc Khanh Farm boldly invested in research and trial production on an area of 100 m2 with 7,500 bags of spawn in 2024. In the beginning, 70 - 80% of the number of bags of red chi medicinal mushroom spawn were successfully cultivated, and the harvested products brought to the market were consumed quickly at prices dozens of times higher than those of food mushrooms. According to scientific documents in the world that Quoc Khanh Farm has collected, Da Lat red chi mushrooms are a special type of red lingzhi, containing many precious active ingredients, many uses in improving overall health such as: increasing resistance, supporting immunity; stabilizing blood pressure, reducing cholesterol; reducing stress, improving sleep, sedating; beautifying skin, anti-aging; stabilizing blood sugar; supporting liver and kidney function, detoxifying and anti-inflammatory; supporting cancer treatment, inhibiting the growth of bad cells in the body...
Up to now, thanks to the addition of technical solutions suitable for the growth characteristics of Da Lat red chi mushrooms at an altitude of 800 - 1,000 m in Hiep Thanh commune, Quoc Khanh Farm has closed the process from producing embryos to care techniques, harvesting, preliminary processing and packaging to bring to the market, the output meets the requirements with a "harvest" rate of 95% or more of the cultivated bags. Accordingly, it is estimated that with 200 m2 of Da Lat red chi mushroom growing area, after 4-5 months of care, a one-time harvest of about 500 kg is achieved, equivalent to a revenue of nearly 350 million VND. It is expected that next year, Quoc Khanh Farm's Da Lat red chi mushroom house will continue to increase its area along with the food mushroom house of all kinds in Hiep Thanh commune. Thereby expanding the production and consumption chain with farmers in Hiep Thanh commune and neighboring communes and wards of Lam Dong province.
Source: https://baolamdong.vn/khong-gian-nam-cua-quoc-khanh-farm-384446.html
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