Edible mushroom farming earns him an easy 50,000+ yuan a month

Hou Dongsheng, a capable man who became wealthy, is proficient in every aspect of mushroom-growing technique. Hou Dongsheng of Xiyan Town, Yicheng, Shanxi is a diligent man. After returning home to start a business growing shiitake mushrooms, he would run to the shiitake base whenever he had free time, and he is proficient in all kinds of technical work such as picking mushrooms and thinning mushrooms. Hou Dongsheng's shiitake production base covers more than 20 mu, with 8 shiitake production greenhouses lined up in a row. After 5 months of careful management, the 30,000 shiitake sticks in the original spawn-running greenhouse had reached the standard for fruiting, and the shiitake mushrooms in the 8 fruiting greenhouses were growing beautifully, with a rich aroma filling the air.

An income of 50,000 yuan a month, with wholesalers scrambling to buy. In May, Hou Dongsheng sold 10,000 mushroom sticks and earned 50,000 yuan. The shiitake market is currently doing well: first-grade mushrooms sell for 7 yuan, and last year they reached more than 9 yuan at the highest point, so the prospects are fairly promising. It is now the stage of successive fruiting, with daily output at around 500 jin. Because shiitake supply is relatively tight in summer, wholesalers from places such as the county seat, Qinshui, and Jincheng all come to buy at his door, and at the mature stage the daily output can reach around 1,500 jin.

A double insurance for getting rich. Is there anything magical about Hou Dongsheng's shiitake growing? In Hou Dongsheng's own words, he has two magic weapons. The first magic weapon is introducing new varieties. To further increase shiitake yield and improve shiitake quality, Hou Dongsheng was the first to introduce capsule spawn - shiitake L808. This was a variety that other local farmers had never even heard of. Hou Dongsheng not only introduced it, but also used the professional knowledge he had learned and gave play to his professional strengths to make the spawn himself. All at once, the shiitake mushrooms grown by Hou Dongsheng's family became distinctive.

Founding a company to develop together. Hou Dongsheng's success made the surrounding villagers deeply envious, and they came one after another to learn from him. Hou Dongsheng felt that rather than each fighting alone, it would be better for everyone to work together. Hou Dongsheng founded a company and adopted the company + base + farmer model, providing farmers with free technical guidance, equipment, and sites, taking unified responsibility for sales, and driving surrounding farmers to develop high-quality, efficient, ecological, and safe agriculture.

Building a cold storage room, no longer afraid of market fluctuations. With more people, a larger scale, and output going up, unsold seasonal products became a worry for Hou Dongsheng. This time, Hou Dongsheng came up with yet another magic weapon for getting rich - building a cold storage room. Hou Dongsheng invested more than 40,000 yuan to build a 40-cubic-meter cold storage room, which can store more than 7,000 jin of shiitake mushrooms at one time. The cold storage room was built to chill and keep shiitake mushrooms fresh. Door-to-door business is not easy to do now. Without a cold storage room, once the shiitake mushrooms are out and you haul them to the market, people will drive the price down; but if you have a cold storage room, you can give the shiitake mushrooms picked in advance a cold treatment, which can prevent the shiitake mushrooms from spoiling during transport.

Daring to strive, daring to venture, daring to plan. Under Hou Dongsheng's leadership, many farmers have now joined the company. Shiitake production is thriving day by day, and both output and quality have reached expectations. But Hou Dongsheng is not satisfied. This post-90s young man, who dares to venture and strive, has already sketched out a blueprint for his career development. Hou Dongsheng said: On the one hand, the fruiting greenhouses should be expanded to 20, leading villagers to further expand the planting scale, striving for perfection in packaging and sales, showcasing regional characteristics, and relying on excellent quality to make Xiyan Town the largest shiitake production base in North China, so that Xiyan shiitake can go out of Yicheng and toward the whole country; on the other hand, increasing the varieties of edible fungi, such as oyster mushrooms, straw mushrooms, button mushrooms, and enoki mushrooms, to meet the diversified needs of the market, while experiments on rare medicinal fungi such as lingzhi and Polyporus umbellatus are also proceeding intensively.

Introducing new varieties is absolutely a good idea for starting a business and getting rich. To get rich and start a business, the first thing to think of is to achieve what others do not have. The first magic weapon is introducing new varieties and improving the quality of one's agricultural products. Coping with risk does not mean everyone has to build a cold storage room. Because the investment is large, not everyone can bear it, but the idea of using cold storage to cope with market risk is indeed worth learning from.