However, Chen Chunhua was only happy at the beginning. After harvesting several crops of mushrooms and sitting down to count the money, she was not so happy anymore.
The Spring Festival in 1985 was relatively late, and the first day of the first lunar month was not until February 20th. Before the New Year, it happened to be the mushroom harvest season.
From early December to early February, a total of 8 crops of Agaricus bisporus were harvested, weighing 2,000 kilograms, with a total profit of 1,200 yuan.
The harvest of oyster mushrooms is 10 days, and a total of 5 crops were harvested, 2,500 kilograms, with a purchase price of 0.5 yuan per kilogram, and a value of 1,250 yuan.
The two kinds of mushrooms were almost harvested, so Chen Chunhua hurriedly took Sun Chuanfang and Liu Guoping to change the ingredients.
The culture media are prepared in advance according to the time. After the mushroom bed is cleaned and disinfected, the seeds are quickly sown on the other side and ready to continue cultivating the mushrooms.
We can continue to harvest mushrooms after the New Year.
However, the enoki mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms that Chen Chunhua had studied so hard before chose to stab her in the back.
There is a half-month interval between each crop of enoki mushrooms. After harvesting four crops, Chen Chunhua felt that the quality was obviously not as good as the previous two batches, so she replaced it with new culture medium and strains.
However, there are a total of 500 bottles, with an average yield of 50 grams per bottle, and the total yield of four crops is only 200 kilograms. The agricultural station purchases it at 45 cents per kilogram, and the value is only 90 yuan.
She spent more than 90 yuan on those 500 glass bottles!
There were also mushrooms. At that time, in order to pull the wood back, she, Lin Guoqing and Liang Shengdi, the three people who cut trees and moved wood, went back and forth many times.
After inoculating the mushrooms, they fanned the plants, lit the fire and watered them.
As a result, the mushroom trees in that room only produced two crops in two months. The key issue was the low yield. In total, they only produced 200 kilograms of shiitake mushrooms, at 50 cents per kilogram, for a total value of 100 yuan, not much better than enoki mushrooms.
After half a year of trouble, she only received a total of 2,640 yuan, and Chen Chunhua was heartbroken.
There were only two novice mushroom players who thought their units were awesome.
"Boss, we can specialize in growing oyster mushrooms and white...oh, that Agaricus bisporus! They have a high yield and sell for a good price!"
Chen Chunhua glanced at Liu Guoping and said, "Young man, do you know that cow dung costs money?"
If you really calculate it, including labor, the cost of Agaricus bisporus is probably higher than that of Enoki mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms.
The main reason is that the current output is too low. The single output per square meter is just over one kilogram. This is a violation of the law!
Chen Chunhua sighed deeply and thought, forget it, this is the only way this year. When she has free time, she will study how to increase the yield. As for the enoki mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, there is still a lot of room for improvement!
She had paid the agreed salary of 30 yuan per month for four months. The fifth 30 yuan, which was also the last salary before the New Year, was paid to the two of them half a month in advance on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.
By the way, I also gave each person an extra red envelope of 50 yuan.
"Hey! That promised bonus! You've worked so hard these past six months! The mushrooms probably won't be growing during the New Year holidays, so I can take care of them myself. You guys can have a good rest for a few days."
After the New Year, there is still a lot to do! "
Two young boys and girls who were still minors after the Chinese New Year held 80 yuan in their hands, smiled flatteringly, and shouted in unison,
"Thank you, boss! Happy New Year, boss! May you make a fortune, boss! May you have a lot of money!"
Chen Chunhua's original feeling of heartache was wiped out by a burst of laughter.
"Alright! Alright! Go home! You'll have to be back to work after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, okay?"
"I know!"
The two of them joined in early October, and so far they have paid a total of 400 yuan in salary and bonus. Chen Chunhua didn't even dare to include the cost of the glass bottle stand.
Even the basic costs such as nutrients and disinfectants.
Her mushroom farm only earned 2,000 yuan in the second half of the year, or 400 yuan a month.
Well, it’s much higher than a worker’s salary, Chen Chunhua can still comfort herself in this way.
But it doesn't matter, she makes money from the farm.
Since the beginning of October, the chicken coop has produced a total of kilograms of eggs and hatched 4,500 new Ross chickens.
Once the hatched chickens reach 90 days old, they're sent to livestock stations or small restaurants for cash. Everyone's been making money these past two years, so buying a chicken during the holidays isn't a big deal anymore.
There were still 1,500 day-old chicks huddled in the new coop, chirping and churning. Chen Chunhua had forbidden Liu Ni from hatching any more chickens until the new coop was built.
"There's no room! The chickens will get sick if they're too crowded together!"
So Liu Ni began to study how to hatch ducklings using an incubator.
Under Li Hongniu's care, the ducks lay eggs rapidly. 300 ducks can produce at least 200 eggs every day.
The probability of naturally fertilizing the eggs is too low. Liu Ni has only managed to raise 100 ducklings so far. Later, because the weather was too cold, the current semi-open riverside duck house was no longer suitable for the ducklings to survive, so they gave up.
Poor Li Hongniu was staring at the ducklings in the middle of winter, afraid they would freeze to death. As a qualified breeder, her pride in the survival rate of her ducklings was no less than Liuni's.
A total of 4,082 kilograms of duck eggs were produced, but no ducks were sold.
As for the twenty or so big white geese, Shen Chunhua learned her lesson and kept three as guard ducks, and sold the remaining 21.
"We don't have that much energy. We're already pretty impressive if we can manage the chickens and ducks at the same time. Let's forget about the geese."
The agricultural and sideline product station did not accept the large white geese, so Liang Shengdi rowed a boat to sell them one by one. Goose meat is not cheaper than chicken, and the retail price can be sold at 1.6 per pound.
Liang Shengdi didn't want any reward, she just wanted a goose to eat. Of course, Chen Chunhua nodded in agreement!
They were all adult white geese, each weighing seven or eight kilograms. All 20 were sold for 241.3 yuan.
Chen Chunhua was happy to receive the money, and Liang Shengdi was also happy to eat the goose.
This year's purchase price for eggs is 1.05 yuan per jin (approximately 500g), for live chickens it's 1.4 yuan per jin (approximately 500g), and for duck eggs it's 0.95 yuan per jin (approximately 500g).
In 5 months, the chicken coop generated a total income of .2 yuan!
Moreover, thanks to the previous incentive policy of "two kilograms of affordable feed for every kilogram of eggs sold", they have indeed saved a lot of money on feed.
There is also a reward for raising more than a thousand chicks, which will definitely belong to Liu Ni. She can earn at least seventy yuan every month from this reward!
Chen Chunhua also successfully won the Shanghai license plate bicycle ticket reward, one for every 5,000 kilograms, and she got 3.
In the first photo, she showed off in front of Lin Guoqing and asked him if he wanted to buy a bicycle.
Unexpectedly, the man twisted his mouth and looked uninterested.
"Why would I need this thing? My work is right at the village entrance. I can walk to nearby places, but a bicycle is useless for longer distances."
If possible, he would rather buy a four-wheeled car.
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