Mushroom farming fulfills Xu Youguo's dream of prosperity

At daybreak, Xu Youguo, who lives in Jiuying Village, Baihetan Town, Qiaojia County, got up early and went to his greenhouse to check on the growth of his mushrooms. Treating them like his own children, he carefully observed their growth, felt the temperature with his hand, and checked whether the mushrooms were "cold or freezing."

Two years ago, due to gastric bleeding and severe cervical spondylosis, Xu Youguo's mother, who was over seventy years old, fainted and lost all feeling throughout her body. To cure his mother's illness, the family sought medical help everywhere, from Qiaojia to Kunming and even Tianjin... His mother's condition improved somewhat, but the family was left more than 500,000 yuan in debt. To repay the debt, Xu Youguo returned to his hometown and took up his old trade - architectural carpentry.

By chance, Xu Youguo saw a video online - a pollution-free oyster mushroom cultivation training course organized by the Beijing Agricultural Broadcasting School - which gave him hope in his quiet life. So Xu Youguo made contact by phone and set off on the road to study in Beijing.

When he arrived at the training class, Xu Youguo found that because he had only an elementary school education, he could not understand much of what the teacher said. He found the teacher and explained his specific situation. The teacher was moved by his tenacious spirit and told him that the shortcut to learning was direct experimental operation.

Although Xu Youguo had a low level of education, he still studied earnestly, recorded things carefully, and learned the growth characteristics of edible fungi at each stage. After the training ended, Xu Youguo returned home and began learning to cultivate and grow edible fungi. He bought materials, watched videos, visited others to ask for advice, and called the teacher whenever he did not understand something, gradually laying the foundation for his business.

Through constant exploration and many cultivation experiments, Xu Youguo has already cultivated edible fungi such as enoki mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and king oyster mushrooms. His pollution-free edible fungi are in short supply on the market, supplied at a wholesale unit price of 3 yuan per jin to 4 farmers' markets in the urban area of Qiaojia County.

At present, Xu Youguo has recovered his investment, and he is thinking about expanding the scale to repay his debt as soon as possible. Xu Youguo said that when he encountered difficulties at first, he relied entirely on the helping hands of relatives and friends. Now that he has gradually gotten started, he also hopes to drive the surrounding people and relatives and friends to develop together, so that everyone can walk the road to prosperity together.