Mushroom equipment is the indispensable technical strength which improves production efficiency, enhances the quality, saves production cost while promoting the sustainable development of mushroom industry. Besides, it also plays a crucial importance on increase of yield and efficiency, transformation of rural income-increasing and new rural construction.
According to statistics, now, there are over 400 enterprises engaging in manufacturing of mushroom equipment in China, most of them gather in Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces.
Popularity degree of mechanized mushroom industry runs ahead of other agricultural projects, especially industrialized mushroom production which highlights modern equipment from strain preparation, mushroom cultivation to processing. From strain fermentation, air purification, substrate preparation, bag production, environmental control, product drying and preservation to deep-processing extraction, a more complete system that integrates production of raw material, strain preparation, automatic control of temperature, humidity, illumination and ventilation, and processing into one has been formed while a technical material equipment foundation of modernized mushroom construction has been built on industrialized mushroom production.
The majority of mushroom enterprises hold new equipment independently researched and developed by themselves and some of them have input a lot during the process of R&D.
Over the years, along with the increasingly fierce competition on Chinese mushroom market, more and more equipment manufacturers are enhancing the consciousness on patent application. At present, number of related mushroom equipment patent is constantly raising, main involved patents include Patent For Invention, Patent For Utility Models and Design Patent. Some of enterprises even own over dozens of national patent at most.
In China, a great number of equipment manufacturing enterprises look to further increase on bright market of intelligent equipment, some of them have taken the lead to input lots of funds on R&D. In addition to the upgrade of equipment, they also realize computational under the control of computer, conduct comparative and coordinating analysis in accordance with preset data, and combination of external temperature, humidity, content of carbon dioxide and preset value. As a result, temperature and humidity are hardly changed while air changing, thereby simulating the optimal environment of mushroom growth and guaranteeing the output and quality of products.
As one of the main bases that engage in mushroom production in Wenling City, Zhejiang Province of China, Zhejiang Guangbo Agriculture Public Company constantly moves toward intensive, normalized, industrialized and standardized mushroom production management, and persistently promotes the idea of “Replacing Human with Machine”. Compared with common cultivation pattern, 10 newly-built industrialized mushroom factories that cover 2400 square meters substantially improve over 5 times of efficiency by mechanical loading and sowing, integrated earthing technology, mechanical quick blanking technology and steel-frame industrialized cultivation mode while reduction rate on production cost attains 68.9% in Guangbo Company. In addition, 12 environmental equipment of mushroom house introduced by the company help realize anti-season, biannual mushroom cultivation and newly-increased output value hits 1.62 million CNY.
Furthermore, the mode powerfully drives producers to generate handsome revenues. For instance, in Guizhou Dafang Xuerong Company, 2 assembly production lines of mushroom stick are built while 14 standardized mushroom workshops are taken on lease. With the joint strength of over 1500 staffs, daily output on mushroom stick comes to 150 tons and daily bagging capacity attains 180,000 bags. Evidently, industrialized bag production leads growers to launch into standardized production of mushroom stick and grow prosperous and powerfully activates the extending of local industrial chain.
SUGGESTIONS: Under the policy background of national subsidies of agricultural machinery, we suggest that equipment manufacturers should enhance the application force on purchasing agricultural machinery and equipment, positively declare to place of registration or provincial competent department of agricultural mechanization in main sales areas so as to enjoy more economic subsidies. In addition, it is of crucial importance for equipment manufactures to accelerate the step of technological innovation on aspect of mushroom equipment, strengthen the awareness on intellectual property right protection and gradually launch into standardized production. Furthermore, it is necessary to pay close attention to market dynamics of domestic and international new equipment market, intensify the training strength of equipment users, build association between strong enterprises in a bid to construct the cooperation alliance of industrial chain, promote the upgrading and development of mushroom equipment industry and stimulate the progress of mushroom industry.
