Mushroom Project
20 April 2022
Anna Kulimbao, one of the CDWAI trainers, participated in a China Aid Juncao Technology Mushroom Growing Workshop. Participants left the Workshop each with 80 mushroom sets to establish their own mushroom bed.
David and Anna Kulimabao (lead CDWAI trainers) planted them on the next day and the attached pictures show the sets all ready to grow.packed in plastic. One set has already fruited with two mushrooms emerging.
The CDWAI team realises that a mushroom enterprise is another family food crop and a small business enterprise that would likely be a good fit for disabled people to set up and carry on to help support themselves.
Mushroom Planting Steps
1. After digging the ground 25 centimetres down make a hole for each set
2. Plant the mushroom sets level with the soil surface
3. Fill the gaps in the holes with loose soil and cover to the tops of the sets
4.. Pour on 2½ litres of water on each mushrooms set
5. The last step is to cover the hole or the tray with white plastic
6. Write down the date of planting
7. Wait for the mushrooms to emerge after only 3 or 4 days, ready for you to harvest!
25 April
Yangon see attached pictures of 8 mushrooms that have already come up.
The 1st tray has 6 mushrooms up and growing. Others are still coming. It takes only 3 days for mushroom fruiting bodies to emerge.
There will be a 2nd harvest after the 1st and finally a 3rd harvest so we are expecting a lot more mushrooms from the rest of the trays.
David Kulimbao
