After special processing, Materia Medica white fungus takes on a different form from ordinary white fungus.
Ningde Network News (reporter Gong Jianrong correspondent Yang Yuanfan text / photo) In the past few days, Yao Shuxian, who returned from Shenzhen to visit and inspect his hometown of Gutian County, had a full itinerary, and the first stop was the Materia Medica Silver Ear Production Base located in Qian'an Village, Jixiang Township, which not only condensed the research results of his thirteen years of painstaking solitude in his later years, but also became a microcosm of the family inheritance of gutian edible mushroom industry.
In Gutian County, the "capital of China's edible mushrooms", the elderly Yao Shuxian is a well-known silver ear expert. In 1977, he successfully developed the high-yield cultivation technology of white fungus substitute materials, which increased the yield of white fungus by 20 times and shortened the production cycle by more than two-thirds, and this technology was subsequently provided to mushroom farmers in the county free of charge, which was widely praised by the society. At the age when he should have enjoyed his old age in peace, the old man's greatest concern was still the "Silver Ear Sutra" that he had been chanting for a lifetime.
In 2003, 69-year-old Yao Shuxian noticed that the production technology of Gutian white fungus at that time was very mature, but there were few high-end white fungus products on the market. Born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine, Yao Shuxian had an idea, why not use medicinal and food homologous herbs as raw materials for cultivating white fungus?
As we all know, Gutian County is the origin of the technology of cultivating white fungus instead of materials, from the initial use of wood chips as a culture medium, to the current cottonseed husk, Gutian white fungus production has increased year by year, and currently occupies 90% of the global market share. As a former innovator of white fungus cultivation technology, Yao Shuxian wanted to break through not the yield but the quality this time.
At that time, Yao Shu, who had moved to Shenzhen for many years, first said that she would do it, self-financed the construction of a processing production line, tried to use Materia Medica as a raw material for cultivating white fungus, and made the fungus hyphae absorb the high nutrients of raw materials through biological carriers to obtain high-quality fruiting bodies. In the long and boring test process, he mixed more than 200 kinds of Materia Medica, improved nearly a thousand formulas, and finally selected more than ten kinds of Materia Medica such as Lotus Seed, Huaishan, Poria as the raw material for the cultivation of silver ear fungus.
In the past 13 years, Yao Shuxian broke through the cultivation technology of Materia Medica and developed a series of Materia Medica silver ear products such as Swallow Ear, Kidney Ear and Lotus Ear, which greatly improved the added value of white ear fungus and opened up a new direction for the development of Gutian Silver Ear Industry.
In 2019, Yao Shuxian decided to return to her long-lost hometown to invest in the establishment of an edible mushroom processing enterprise, and selected her grandson Yao Chenzhen as the company's legal person, responsible for the operation and management of the enterprise. Over the past year, the production base of Materia Medica silver fungus named after Yao Shuxian has been quite large-scale, among which the production processes such as cleaning, spore breaking and drying of white fungus have adopted advanced technology. At the same time, the involvement of surrounding farmers in the management of the mushroom house increased their income.
"In order to meet the preferences of different consumer groups, we have launched home-packed and small canned products of Materia Medica white fungus, mainly for the high-end market." While introducing, Yao Chenzhen picked up a 6-gram can of Materia Medica white fungus and said that it could cook two large bowls of soft glutinous and nutrient-rich silver ear soup.
Since the beginning of this year, the production base of Materia Medica has overcome the impact of the epidemic, made concerted efforts online and offline, and achieved counter-trend growth in orders. Yao Chenzhen said: "Grandpa has been focusing on the study of silver fungus for many years, this spirit is worth learning from future generations, we must inherit the cultivation technology of Materia Medica, vigorously develop the deep processing of agricultural products, and enhance the industrial development level of Gutian edible mushrooms." ”
What made Yao Shuxian feel very pleased was that Nian Zizai's "Materia Medica Silver Ear Dream" had finally come true.
Source: Ningde Network