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BAGUIO CITY Mushroom growers welcome the occasional thunderstorms that usually jolt others to scamper to safer
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Lightning of that magnitude encourages the growth of mushrooms, said Annie Cosi-Ngitew, a 28-year-old mushroom
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grower. After each thunderstorm, she would harvest around ve kilos of oyster mushrooms from her mushroom
laboratory farm in Ambiong, Baguio City.
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Samin Saying she has many experiences of these even with her still limited business of growing cultured mushrooms, she
AUGUST 29, armed that there is truly something in the folk practice of looking for these fungal growths the morning after a
2016 thunderstorm.

In the Cordillera, village people still look for mushrooms in burned down slopes or in areas where there are rotting
The banana stalks or bamboo poles.
disappeared Bigas hindi bala
NDFP In a remote village in Dalupirip, Itogon, villagers usually harvest mushrooms even from paved roads. They call these
consultants white stone-like mushrooms bu-o.
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The Center for Environmental Concerns (CEC) explained that it is the presence of more nitrogen after a thunderstorm COMMENTARY more

that encourages growth of mushrooms. Naturally occurring nitrogen is plentiful near decaying trunks of trees.

But the commercial production of mushrooms does not

rely on lightning. In Annies experience with mushroom
culture, a uorescent lamp is enough to facilitate growth
of the substance that is not considered as plant or animal,
but is called instead as a fungus.

Annie and her husband Abraham started mushroom

production since March this year. They are among the few
couples in the Baguio-La Trinidad area to have entered the
industry.

We have not saturated the market yet, said Annie,

referring to the large demand for mushrooms. Some new, some old
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mushroom are still unmet. a wide spectrum of Philippine life and governance

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University (BSU), Annie and Abraham started their then
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separate agri-business ventures after college. He went into
vegetable production while she started growing
mushrooms. She gets her culture bags from local
producers. Both licensed pathologists, they later merged
SALUNGGUHIT more
capital to start a mushroom culture business right in their
backyard, using the basement of a building for growing
mushrooms.

With a little nancial assistance from the Department of

Labor and Employment (DoLE), the couple purchased
materials to make an autoclave that is used for sanitizing
the materials that would later receive the spawn. Local
machinists helped them with the design and actual
production of the machine, which they described simply as
a giant pressure cooker.

The planting medium consisted of two sacks of rice hull for every eight sacks of sawdust. Afterward, they add three
percent lime to check the acidity of the medium. These they mix using a shovel, then they bag and later cook it to
disinfect the whole thing. When the medium has cooled down, spawning and incubating are both achieved with the use
of ultra-violet (UV) light, in a laboratory, also within the premises.

Later the couple hangs these bags. Misting happens in the mornings and evenings, but during warmer days, it could also
happen at noon.

The Ngitews follow a specied height and spaces in-between the piles, consisting of 14 bags on top of one another in a
seven-foot high platform. They see to it that everything is clean and free of any contaminant, lest the spawn dies and
no mushroom would appear.

If the contamination occurs at the spawn-production stage, everything would be wasted, Annie conded. She said she
had experienced this before and she threw everything into the compost pile. She gets her spawns from reputable To whom will he really listen?
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The bags start to bear mushrooms on the rst week and after three days these are ready for harvesting. The next By RENAN ORTIZ
harvest comes after another week. The bags continue to grow mushrooms for ve to eight months, depending on the
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volume of the rst harvests, said Annie.
 She delivers her mushrooms to market stalls, although a local restaurant operator has placed orders.

I still could not close a deal with bigger food outlets because the production still dwindles, she said.
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A kilo of oyster mushrooms costs P160 in the Baguio City public market. It could be cheaper along the sidewalks but the
quality is not as good as those that came straight from farms.

Ambulant vendors oer three to four oyster mushrooms with ampalaya or saluyot leaves at P20 to P25 depending on
the mood of the peace-and-order sentinel who goes after them. The more times an ambulant vendor is apprehended
by the citys peace and order sentinel, the costlier the vegetables become, observed a local market-goer.

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Gloria mateo
February 18, 2014 at 11:07 am Edit

Hello po , pwedi po ba mag hands on class . Ofw po ako at plan to do mushroom culture. May alam
po kayo ng market for it? Saan po ang location Nyo I would appreciate it if you respond
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Philippine Mushroom Farming Read the rest of this entry

December 12, 2013 at 6:35 pm Edit

PARA PO SA GUSTONG MATUTO NG PAGTATANIM NG KABUTE

Ang gabay sa tamang pagtatanim, pag-aalaga at pagpaparami ng kabute, bilang alternatibong
libangan, pagkain at pangkabuhayan. bisitahin lamang po ang aming website upang malaman po
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ninyo ang ibat ibang paraan ng pagpapatubo ng kabute.

miriam montemayor
December 6, 2013 at 7:12 am Edit

Is this farm is active how we can access

gemma bellon
October 14, 2013 at 9:09 am Edit

Hi,
Would you know if this mushroom farm still operates? The article was written in 2011. Do they oer
hands on courses? And do you mind sharing their contact details.
Regards,
Gemma

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Pat JULY 17, 2016
September 13, 2013 at 5:05 am Edit
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Great Pics of mushrooms, growing them does require a lot of hardwork.
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art mandala
July 15, 2011 at 2:45 pm Edit INTERNATIONAL more

good backyard project to replicate

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