The Zhongfu grain and fruit cooperative, in Malu town, succeeded in cultivating mushrooms on vines under the guidance of agricultural technicians from Jiading district in Shanghai.
Shanghai Zhongfu grain and fruit cooperative has vineland covering an area of over 5,000 mu (3.3 square kilometers), each mu producing 200 kilograms of trimmed vines every year.
The discarded vines make a rich resource yet to be used, as they contain high fiber and rich nutrition. In the past, they were casually stacked, discarded or burned by the grape farmers, polluting the surrounding area.
Now, mushrooms can grow on the vines. The new experiment succeeded in a low-carbon, recycling and ecological development mode: spreading crushed raw edible fungi on vines, mushrooms growing out, and at last using fungus waste as organic fertilizers in the soil.
Edited by Lin Hong and Nelly Min