Wan Feng saw that the people around him all looked dazed and knew that they were very confused after hearing what he heard.
"Understand?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"Then let's analyze it step by step, so maybe you won't be confused. Whether you're growing wood ear mushrooms or mushrooms, the first step is to have a mother fungus. The formula for the mother fungus is potatoes, glucose, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, magnesium sulfate, vitamin B, agar, and water. Of course, they must be prepared in a certain ratio. This is how the mother fungus is made."
"After the mother fungus is produced, it needs to be fermented and grown in a culture medium. The next step is to prepare the culture medium. The raw materials of the culture medium are very simple. It consists of sawdust, bran or rice bran, sucrose, gypsum powder and water in appropriate amounts.
After these things go through a set of processing methods, they can generate culture medium. Then put the culture medium into the bottle, connect the mother fungus and seal it for more than 20 days. The fungus culture will be ready.
The fungus spawn is essentially the seed. Without soil, the seed cannot take root, sprout, bloom, or bear fruit, so we need to provide it with the appropriate soil. Wood ear mushrooms require wood, preferably oak. Saw the oak into sections about 1.2 meters long. Use an electric drill or other specialized tool to drill a hole about 3 centimeters deep. Place the fungus spawn into the hole, then cover it with bark, with birch bark being the best choice.
The advantage of the log cultivation method is that a log can be used for four years, and during these four years, the amount of dried wood ear mushrooms produced from a log is about three taels.
The disadvantages are that the output is average and the damage to the forest is great. After the Forest Protection Law is promulgated, this path will be blocked.
In fact, this is a relatively backward method of growing wood ear mushrooms. The later plastic bag and wide-mouth bottle cultivation methods have higher yields and lower costs than log cultivation.
To put it simply, it is grown directly with sawdust. Its characteristics are that it does not damage the wood and has low cost. The disadvantage is that the taste of the wood ear is much worse.
At least the wood ear mushrooms produced from logs are relatively authentic wood ear mushrooms. In Wan Feng's opinion, are the wood ear mushrooms grown from sawdust still considered wood ear mushrooms?
“The same principle applies to growing mushrooms, except the formula for the mother fungus changes.”
Shen Dezhen sighed after hearing this: "It's too complicated. It's not easy to start any side business."
"Actually, if you learn how to make fungus strains, you can make a lot of money by selling them in the early stages."
"We'll talk about this later. Let's talk about the aquaculture industry."
"If you think planting is troublesome, then the animal husbandry that suits our region is even more challenging. While there's a certain market for pig and chicken farming here, because the entry level is low, once too many people start raising them, the market is blocked, and the final product price isn't even as high as the cost. Therefore, if you want to raise something, you have to raise something that's difficult, something that ordinary people can't afford."
"What's difficult?" Yang Wu asked.
Wan Feng didn't answer Yang Wu's question immediately, but instead asked a question: "I estimate that in a few years, the country will enact a hunting law that will completely ban hunting. What will those who like to eat wild game do then?"
Shen Dezhen scratched his head: "You don't mean to let us raise wild animals, do you?"
"Haha, why not? Raising bears and tigers is impossible, but raising deer, four-legged beasts, musk deer, otters, ferrets... these things are still very possible. Only by raising things that ordinary people can't raise will there be a permanent market. Some of these animals are treasures from head to toe."
Shen Dezhen was dumbfounded: "How do we raise these things? Where can we get seeds?"
"That's up to you guys. You might be able to raise other animals, but it's relatively easy to raise deer. Aren't there the Oroqen people in the north? They make a living by hunting, and they seem to know how to raise these animals. You can buy some breeding deer from them. Deer eat very simple food, even crop straw. If you can raise them well, you can certainly become wealthy, if not rich."
Whether Wan Feng's words could open a door for them was not something he could control.
As for whether anyone dares to try, whether they can succeed depends on their luck.
In fact, the most successful of these skills is to grow wood ear mushrooms. Relatively speaking, as long as you master the production method of wood ear mushrooms, growing wood ear mushrooms is still very promising.
If nothing goes wrong, the rural areas here will start to promote wood ear cultivation on a large scale in three years.
Shen Dezhen was a man of some ideas. He ran to Wan Feng's house at around nine o'clock in the evening and asked about the detailed formula and method of growing wood ear mushrooms.
Wan Feng wrote down each step in detail with a pen, filling six or seven pages on A4 paper, which took him more than an hour.
Shen Dezhen put it in his arms as if it were a treasure.
“Uncle Shen, I’m going back in a few days. Please take care of my father while he works.”
Shen Dezhen patted his chest and said, "Leave it to me. As long as I'm in charge of the yard for one day, I guarantee your father won't get tired."
"Uncle Chen, let me show you another way. My grandma's production team has a rubber shoe factory and a clothing factory. If you're willing to go out in the winter, why not go and get some clothes and shoes to sell? The products we produce are not available on the market and are absolutely trendy. You can go back and sell them door to door in the village. You can make hundreds of dollars in a whole winter."
Shen Dezhen blinked for a long time without answering.
"If you feel uneasy, you can go with my father in the winter."
Wan Feng gave a detailed introduction to the products of the shoe and garment factories, including styles, varieties, and factory prices.
"I'll think about it. Winter is free for four or five months anyway, so maybe I can go out and have a look then."
After saying this, Shen Dezhen left happily.
If he really went to get the goods, he wouldn't be able to sell them at the same price as Wanfeng in Hongya when he came back, and he wouldn't even be able to make back the travel expenses.
If you bring back 100 pieces of clothing and earn 100 yuan, there won't be much left after deducting the travel expenses. However, the current living standards in Heilongjiang are much higher than those in the rural areas of Beiliao, so it makes sense to sell them at a slightly higher price.
It is not difficult to make one or two hundred yuan if you sell well.
It is no problem to make two or three trips in a winter, which can almost earn them a year's salary.
This is also a very considerable income for them.
As for asking his father to sell them, Wan Feng had no such idea. It would be enough for him to mail back as many as he could. It would also be nice to stay at home and enjoy the winter.
But I haven’t been back to my hometown for many years, so I should take this opportunity to go back and see my grandma.
My grandmother's family also lived in Beiliao Province, and she was a fellow villager of a famous comedian who became famous more than ten years later.
Wan Feng thinks, should he visit grandma's house when he goes back this time?
It is very necessary!
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