Editor's note: Elm mushroom, the form of umbrella, full of color, soft mycelium, because the whole body is golden yellow, people also call it "golden mushroom". Because it is rich in protein, amino acids and vitamins and other nutrients, it not only has the edible value of delicious taste and rich fragrance, but also has the medicinal value of nourishing and nourishing the body, and is deeply loved by consumers. Due to this characteristic, in 2021, Xinrong Village, Hongguang Town, Helan County, began to introduce and plant elm mushrooms, and this time of year is a good season for the harvest of elm mushrooms.
Walking into the elm mushroom greenhouse located in the edible mushroom base of Xinrong Village, the fragrance of mushrooms comes to the face, and what catches your eye is clusters of golden mushrooms, which are of different sizes, high and low, and the thick and full mushrooms are particularly lovely. The mushroom is hot and humid, and the harvest begins in mid-April and lasts until October. Mushroom sticks 7 to 15 days out of mushrooms once, due to the rapid growth and development, there are a large number of mushrooms to harvest every day, which can be busy to pick mushroom workers, this year's 46-year-old villager Xia Xiaoqin is one of them, she is busy while telling reporters that she has been working here for ten years, and is also considered a "skilled worker", earning 130 yuan a day, and can go home at noon, she is very satisfied with this job.
Since 2021, Xinrong Village has won 16 million yuan of rural revitalization bridging funds and Fujian-Ningbo cooperation funds to build 63 greenhouses and renovate 28 greenhouses; Support Jinfu Vegetable Production and Marketing Professional Cooperative to build 1 fungus cultivation room, form a whole industrial chain of fungus breeding, inoculation, planting and sales, and vigorously promote the development of edible fungus industry in Xinrong Village. At present, there are a total of 424 greenhouses of various facilities in the village, including 57 shiitake mushrooms, 16 elm mushrooms, and 28 morel mushrooms. Through the development of the industry, it has also driven the employment of women in the surrounding families, realizing the "two correctness" of earning money and taking care of the family, and only the elm mushroom can drive the stable income of nearly 30 laborers in the village.
"Our Xinrong Village is mainly based on the edible fungus industry and builds a facility industry. The yield of this elm mushroom is very high, and now the output of a shed should reach about 30,000 catties, and the gross profit of this shed is about 70,000 to 80,000 yuan according to the purchase price of the market. Fang Qi, deputy director of the village committee of Xinrong Village, Hongguang Town, Helan County, said. Freshly picked elm mushrooms are loved by the market because of their delicious taste and rich nutrition, and demand exceeds supply. In order to increase added value, reduce the loss of logistics to Yuhuang mushrooms, and let the edible mushrooms in Helan County go further, the cooperative also purchased dryers to extend the industrial chain, and a large number of Yuhuang mushrooms picked in the shed every day are picked, sorted, and dried, and sold to local markets at a price of 30 yuan per catty. It is worth mentioning that due to the need to sort and tear elm mushrooms into small flowers in advance, the operation is simple and does not require physical strength, and it has driven some elderly people to work.
The development of the industry has been vigorous, and the life of the villagers has also been confident. In recent years, in accordance with the working idea of "policy guidance, scale development, project support, and main body drive", Xinrong Village has taken the edible fungus industry as the leading industry of "one village, one product", built a "mushroom" characteristic industrial park, and continuously improved the development model of "village collective + cooperative + farmer", cooperatives provide raw materials, technical guidance and product repurchase, villagers are responsible for planting, cultivation and picking, village collective organizations are responsible for coordinating work, cooperatives, farmers, and village collective economic organizations share dividends according to the proportion of shares, so as to realize the expansion of strains and the production of fungus sticks. The development of the whole industrial chain of edible mushroom cultivation and mushroom sales has effectively broadened the employment channels of the masses, made them participants and beneficiaries of the development of characteristic agriculture, and boosted rural revitalization on the fast track.