Mushroom cultivation makes a Binzhou farming woman rich through science and technology, becoming a widely known Mushroom Queen

In recent years, the Binzhou Science and Technology Association has actively carried out science popularization activities and established science popularization reading rooms, guiding farmers to learn in the science popularization reading rooms during the slack autumn and winter farming seasons to find ways to increase income. Qiu Huaying, a farmer from Antou Village, Bincheng District, Binzhou, learned through studying in a science popularization reading room that mushroom cultivation offers considerable economic benefits, so she learned while doing and boldly put it into practice. Her current annual net income can reach more than 70,000 yuan.

When Qiu Huaying was reading books in the science popularization reading room, after seeing knowledge related to mushroom cultivation, she bought more books on mushroom cultivation techniques to study, and soon mastered mushroom cultivation techniques. From then on, she worked from dawn to dusk and worked hard, and soon got a return. After two harvests of mushrooms, she not only recovered the cost but also made a profit of 6,000 yuan.

Afterward, she boldly explored further, and with the help of technicians from the Binzhou Agricultural Technology Association, invested more than 30,000 yuan to change traditional cultivation using cooked material in plastic bags to loose-spawn cultivation using raw material, which saves labor and time and also gives high yields. It can produce 6-7 harvests of mushrooms a year, while costs did not increase much. The new method brought her rich returns in the first year of cultivation, and that year she earned more than 40,000 yuan. Now, after her careful management, her annual net income reaches more than 70,000 yuan, making her a widely known "Mushroom Queen."