flames007:
@mushroomFarm

Good morning sir. I've been coming back for a while to check for your updates. I'm really curious about how one can dry the mushrooms thoroughly for transport.

mushroomFarm:

Sorry I have not updated in a while. While you can still watch good video resources about this question YouTube, I should perhaps add my own little bit of knowledge.
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Mushrooms are dried in a dark cool room with a blower (fan) operating for about 10hours each day. This way even drying is achieved. The dark environment and constant air movement slow down microbial actions ensuring that quality of mushroom is maintained after dryness.
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Open air or direct sunlight drying should be avoided.

effort1:


How come your number is no more reachable?

Even your website is showing error 404

These signs are giving convents about the reliability of what you are advertising here

mushroomFarm:

I gave my whatsapp number
you are probably calling at the wrong time sir.
And for now, the spawns are not available. You can contact me on whatsapp or quote me here if you want prompt replies or you have mushroom to sell sir

mushroomFarm:

I gave my whatsapp number
you are probably calling at the wrong time sir.
And for now, the spawns are not available. You can contact me on whatsapp or quote me here if you want prompt replies or you have mushroom to sell sir

mushroomFarm:

Try to call me first.
09090516696 you can call between the hours of 8am to 6pm daily. You can as well mail me via nairaland

mushroomFarm:

09090516696 you can call between the hours of 8am to 6pm daily. You can as well mail me via nairaland

mrZENographer:
mushroomFarm just called 3 pm and number say not avalaible

mushroomFarm:

Sorry I have not updated in a while. While you can still watch good video resources about this question YouTube, I should perhaps add my own little bit of knowledge.
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Mushrooms are dried in a dark cool room with a blower (fan) operating for about 10hours each day. This way even drying is achieved. The dark environment and constant air movement slow down microbial actions ensuring that quality of mushroom is maintained after dryness.
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Open air or direct sunlight drying should be avoided.

mushroomFarm:
THIS IS A DEVELOVING THREAD AND IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY LONG THREAD

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In this thread I will be discussing the following headlines
1. What are mushrooms?
2. Why are they so profitable?
3. Greenhouse farming and mushroom cultivation
4. HYBRID VARIETY OF OYSTER MUSHROOMS
5. HARVESTING AND SELLING
6. CASE STUDIES

Finally I will be showing prospective mushroom farmers exactly how to become a part of our big plan growing mushrooms and selling them to us in huge quantities.
Henceforth however I won't refer to it as 'mushroom farmers' anymore, rather, as a way of making it more lucrative and generally acceptable to the youth population, we now call it 'greenhouse agripreneur' [/color]
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So let's get started. What are mushrooms?
So we all have an idea what mushrooms are but if you care for some scientific explanations here it is;
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. "Mushroom" also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.
One very important clue to derive from this scientific explanation of what mushrooms are is 'spores' mushrooms are propagated by spores.[color=#990000]
Obviously not all mushrooms are edible. Some are in fact very poisonous. This is something you probably know already. What you don't know however is that some species of normally edible mushrooms can become poisonous if they are exposed to conditions that can support such reversion from being edible to becoming poisonous. Mushrooms that have been exposed to so much pesticide sprays are a very good example of this. They trap the lethal chemicals in the pesticides or herbicides and never break them down. This is one reason why you need to choose your mushroom strains carefully and properly. This is also one of the reasons why only mushrooms grown using organic cultural methods are acceptable in the export market.
To crown it all, mushrooms are fungi, they grow in the wild where they break down substrates composed mainly or decaying organic matter such as wood. This sort of growth is uncontrolled and yield is definitely very low. For the larger market, mushrooms must be grown indoors in a controlled environment known as greenhouses where optimal environment needed for a massive yield of mushrooms are enabled. Years upon years of researches from microbiologists and mycologists have allowed these optimal conditions to be known although they vary from one specie of mushrooms to the other. While shitakes and button mushrooms require a much more sophisticated substrates/growth medium and environment for growth, oyster mushrooms have been found to do well in relatively simple growth environment and substrates. Oyster mushrooms also have the highest yield per square meter of substrates. In fact a green house sitting on a plot of land can churn out over one thousand kilograms of oyster mushrooms every fourteen days. At an average market price of N2,700 per kilogram of oyster mushrooms, that would be 2.7 million naira every 14 days if properly managed.
I like to assume that my calculations are blown out of proportions (Even though really, they are not) but assuming you are only doing 50% success of that forecast every two weeks they we are still looking at over a million naira which is very hard to believe.
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And this is where the second topic comes in. Why are mushrooms so profitable?[/color]
There are quiet a lot of reasons and here are some of the reasons I can think of at the moment. (Honestly Google is your friend. We can't do a full discussion on this topic on just one thread, even microbiologists and mycologists have to study for four years yet they still don't know half of what mushrooms are all about)
1. Mushrooms are in very high demand. Almost all countries on earth are requesting for it in huge numbers
[color=#990000]2. Mushrooms grow fast. It takes only 14 days to reach maturity and it takes about the same number of days to regrow after you harvest them the first time!
3. Yield is very high compared to other agricultural produce.
4. Mushrooms grow on substrates that are waste products of other industries such as saw dusts and wood scrapings from the lumbering industry. You don't spend money on feeds. Yet you get to earn a whole lot. It's like converting wastes to wealth.
5. Mushrooms contain several essential amino acids, proteins, vitamins, etc.. it can very well replace meat in a dish yet it is a plant food at the same time! It is in high demand by pharmaceutical industries.
6. Mushrooms are in high demand by the livestock industry too where they make them into animal feeds and dietary supplements.
7. Diminishing forest reserves and the problem of security have ensured that wild mushrooms are no longer in the market. Demand for greenhouse mushrooms that are safer to consume, neater, more nutritious, etc.. are now in huge demand in the local market
and a whole lot more....
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...TO BE CONTINUED
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IN PICTURES
PICTURE ONE: FLY AGARIC A VERY POISONOUS MUSHROOM
PICTURE TWO: NORMAL OYSTER MUSHROOMS GROWING IN A GREENHOUSE
PICTURE THREE: AN HYBRID OYSTER MUSHROOM (THE TYPE WE'LL TEACH YOU TO FARM) studier, bigger, heavier, more nutritious, about 400 times more profitable
PICTURE FOUR: THERE IS NO PICTURE 4
#modified For people willing to go into this, please give me a call to obtain your hybrid spawns. They take up to two months to be cultured which makes it important to make your bookings ahead of time.