At 6:00 a.m. on January 7, 2022, watching the truck full of oyster mushrooms drive out of the gate of the edible mushroom planting base, Zhang Yanbo straightened up and breathed a sigh of relief. He got up at 3 o'clock in the morning and organized people to pick mushrooms and load trucks, and it was every day. In his words, "Every day I get tired like a grandson." ”
"Pick mushrooms in the middle of the night and send them to the wholesale market early in the morning, so as to ensure the freshness of the oyster mushrooms." Zhang Yanbo said, "Recently, the temperature is low, the light time is short, the growth of oyster mushrooms is slow, and the oyster mushrooms that can be sent to the market every morning are only six or seven thousand catties." ”
Zhang Yanbo, 42 years old, a farmer in Yangji Village, Yangliuxue Town, Binzhou City, binzhou City, abandoned school before graduating from junior high school. Such a farmer, he is now the general manager of Binzhou Fuzhesi Mushroom Co., Ltd., and his edible mushroom production base can provide more than 4.6 million kilograms of fresh and tender oyster mushrooms for the market a year.
Zhang Yanbo's edible mushroom production base. "This is where mushrooms are produced, so be really clean," he said. ”
After Zhang Yanbo did not go to school, he set up a stall in the market, worked on a construction site, and later pulled up a construction team himself. Back at home, I saw that my parents were planting a few acres of land, not only tired, but also really not earning money. He wanted to go back to the countryside and see if he could make some movement.
Zhang Yanbo ran the agricultural department to ask the experts, ran the market to understand the situation, and decided to plant edible mushrooms to try. The choice to grow edible mushrooms is because there is no shortage of local cotton straw, corn straw, and jade core, which are good raw materials for cultivating edible mushrooms.
To grow edible mushrooms, to build greenhouses, you need open space. Zhang Yanbo found Duan Li Village in Qinhuangtai Township, Bincheng District, this village team is good, and the village style is positive. In September 2013, he built eight edible mushroom greenhouses, and the first feeding was planted with bisporus mushrooms.
The first planting was successful, and one square meter can produce 38 pounds of bisporine mushrooms, which made Zhang Yanbo very excited. When he was excited, he knew he was in trouble. At that time, only the people of the big city industry recognized the double spore mushroom, and sales in other places were very small. Can be transported to Shanghai and other places double spore mushrooms, without refrigerated trucks, half the way can be broken; with refrigerated trucks, the cost is too high, transport past the general ledger does not make money.
"At the peak, I can pick eight or nine tons of bisporus mushrooms a day, and I am worried." Zhang Yanbo said. Bisporus mushrooms can sell as much as they can sell, and the rest are pickled up.
The sales of bisporus mushrooms were not good, and Zhang Yanbo began to run the market again. After running around the market, he found that although the oyster mushrooms were road goods, they were sold from supermarkets in big cities to markets in rural areas, and the sales were very large. "The mushrooms I grow should be popular products, adapted to thousands of households, and all ages love to eat." He said.
In 2014, Zhang Yanbo built 10 more greenhouses, which were insufficiently funded and could only be built simply. The 10 greenhouses built for the new construction were all changed to oyster mushrooms. Oyster mushrooms are highly resistant to stress, and the cultivation technique is relatively simple.
Growing oyster mushrooms is too profitable, which makes Zhang Yanbo really excited. However, his simple greenhouse, the effect of heating and cooling is very poor, he can only put in the material once a year, and produces oyster mushrooms in September and October. In 2016, he demolished all 16 greenhouses and transformed them into steel structure temperature-controlled greenhouses. This kind of greenhouse can be put into material three or four times a year to achieve year-round production.
Before building a greenhouse to grow mushrooms, Zhang Yanbo could say that he had never planted land, and he didn't know anything about growing mushrooms. He ran to the edible mushroom planting base to learn, asked experts, and found videos on the Internet to watch over and over again. More than that, he stayed in his own greenhouse, staring at the mushroom stick, looking at the growth of the hyphae, and watching the mushroom out of the mushroom stick. After reading more, he gradually understood in his heart that when he encountered any problems, he knew that he should solve them in this way.
Zhang Yanbo's oyster mushroom greenhouse. The scene in the shed can be seen as a landscape.
By the end of 2021, Zhang Yanbo has built 46 steel structure temperature-controlled edible mushroom greenhouses. These greenhouses produce oyster mushrooms throughout the year, with a total annual output of more than 4.6 million catties. In order to collect mushrooms, he employs an average of more than 30 farmers a day, and these farmers are women and the elderly. Zhang Yanbo paid more than 1 million yuan a year for these mushroom farmers.
"During the whole growth process of oyster mushrooms, they will not use any drugs, not only delicious, but also in line with the requirements of people's healthy diet now, and the market demand for oyster mushrooms in recent years is increasing year by year." Zhang Yanbo said. No matter where he went, when he met people who wanted to develop agriculture, he said: You grow oyster mushrooms, you promise to do it.
Up to now, from Zhang Yanbo's base to learn edible mushroom planting technology, back to build a greenhouse, Zhang Yanbo said absolutely more than 500. Moreover, some of the greenhouses were built with his help, and the materials he used were also sent by him. These more than 500 greenhouses were built in Binzhou City, Zaozhuang City, gaoqing county, Jiyang county, and Laiwu district of Jinan City.
Zhang Yanbo in mushroom picking. He was busy all year round, tired and fulfilled.
To grow oyster mushrooms, Zhang Yanbo needs a lot of raw materials. When the local farmers planted cotton and finished picking cotton in the autumn, Zhang Yanbo said directly to the farmers: The cotton straw does not need to be managed by you, and after I help you pull it out, I will rotate the land again. In this way, whether you plant wheat this autumn or cotton next spring, you will not worry.
After finishing the mushroom stick, it is also a good thing in Zhang Yanbo's eyes. He built an organic fertilizer production workshop and processed waste fungus sticks into organic fertilizer. His 46 sheds can produce more than 1,300 tons of waste mushroom sticks a year; waste mushroom sticks cannot be thrown away casually, and some farmers who grow mushrooms are pulled to give to Zhang Yanbo. In 2021, farmers gave him more than 2,000 tons of waste mushroom sticks. The organic fertilizer processed from waste mushroom sticks is now marketed at 1300 yuan per ton.
Zhang Yanbo took corn, cotton and other straw from farmers and made them into mushroom sticks for the production of oyster mushrooms; after producing the sticks of oyster mushrooms, they were processed into organic fertilizer and returned to the field.
Dazhong Newspaper, Rural Dazhong Daily reporter Sun Chengmin, correspondent Li Rongxin, Zhu Huating