Prospects for using mulberry stalks to grow edible fungi look promising

The Microbiology Experimental Plant of the Guangxi Academy of Sciences Institute of Biology recently invented a technique for growing edible fungi using mulberry branches and stalks, and is carrying out an industrialization demonstration in the sericulture experts' compound in Luoxi Town, Yizhou City, Guangxi. According to professionals, the mulberry stalks left over each year after sericulturists plant mulberry @#@250@#@ and raise silkworms can, after being processed and crushed, serve as the main raw material for cultivating edible fungi (oyster mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, jade yellow mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, etc.), and using the mulberry stalks from each mu to cultivate edible fungi can increase income by more than 2000 yuan. Based on the 200,000 mu of mulberry fields currently owned by Yizhou City, the county (city) with the largest mulberry and silkworm production base in the country, if all the cut mulberry stalks were used to cultivate edible fungi, income could increase by more than 400 million yuan, which for the local 80,000 sericulturist households is no small potential fortune. At present, the mushroom delicacy grown from mulberry branches and stalks, the jade yellow mushroom, sells for more than 10 yuan per 1 kilogram on the market and demand exceeds supply.