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Mushrooms in Vietnam: Wide export routes

Growing mushrooms for export is highly profitable as many farmers and enterprises take advantage of favorable natural conditions and agricultural by-products such as straw, sawdust, corn stalk ...

Attractive profit

Being certified VietGAP at the end of 2012, mushroom, lichen and abalone mushroom products of Mung Viet Biotechnology JSC (Phu Binh Hamlet, Phu Hoa Dong, Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh City) are is preferred by domestic and foreign consumers.

Ms. Le Ha Mong Ngoc - Director of Mushroom Vietnam said that mushroom is a difficult agricultural product, sensitive to the change of living environment, however, it is also a product of high profit.

Accordingly, to invest in a cage house area of ​​100m2 (can plant 6,000 fungal blastocysts) need from 40-80 million. The mushroom after being put into a nursing home for 1 month will be harvested. The harvest time is 3 months, the output of mushroom products is around 300g / embryo.

The product of Mushrooms Viet Nam is gradually expanding market consumption to neighboring countries.

With the price from 30,000 to 35,000 VND / kg today, growers can earn from 10,000-15,000 VND / kg of fungus. In addition, the production of clean mushrooms, which ensure market standards, also provides a significant source of revenue for producers.

Mr. Nguyen Trong Tan, from Suoi Nho commune (Dinh Quan district, Dong Nai province), said that his family had 5 rice farmers but he still lacked them. Since the move to grow mushrooms, oysters, ear mites ... family economics better, double profit compared to rice cultivation.

The export mushroom cultivation model is being promoted by the Agriculture Encouragement Center of the Mekong Delta provinces by supporting the transfer of cultivation techniques and care for farmers. With 1,000 bags of abalone mushroom, farmers can earn 0.5 tons of products, reaching nearly 10 million per case.

Wide export road

Mushroom is considered clean product due to not using pesticides, stimulants. Nutritional mushrooms are useful for treating some diseases, lichops and abalone mushrooms are increasingly popular in the domestic market and the world favors.

Pham Van Du, Deputy Director General of the Cultivation Department, said that Vietnam's export price of salt mushrooms has increased steadily over the past few years, from $ 1,800 / ton (2011) to $ 2,000 (2012) 2,500USD / ton in the first months of 2013.

Mrs. Le Ha Mong Ngoc said that in order to qualify for export, Lingzhi mushroom, abalone mushroom Viet Viet was produced according to VietGAP standards. Accordingly, mushroom cage houses must be separated from other farms so that they are not affected by pesticides, environmental toxins as well as to control harmful microorganisms.

Currently, each month Vietnam mushrooms export 100-200kg of VietGAP red ginseng through Lao PDR, Thailand for 1.5-2 million VND / kg. The business is researching, producing the tea bag filter bag, the juice from the Red Lingzhi mushroom to bring to these two markets.

According to the Department of Cultivation, the country produces about 250,000 tons of mushrooms every year. This amount is still relatively modest compared to the potential mushroom development in the local.

Moreover, mushroom growing is small, fragmented, so it is very difficult to collect large quantities of mushrooms for export.

"One kilogram of fresh mushrooms in the water cost from 300,000 to 500,000 VND but after initial processing, packaging, the company can sell for over 1 million. If exported to neighboring countries like Laos, China, the price can be up again, "said Nguyen Truong Son, owner of a vegetable purchasing and processing business in Dong Thap.