Returning to the mountain village, starting with mushroom picking to get rich

The village chief was very careful when talking to Yang Lin.

His demeanor was respectful and cautious, yet it also carried a hint of ingratiation.

It's not just the village chief; many villagers in Qingshan Village treat Yang Lin this way these days.

Who could have imagined that in just a few months, a person's fate could undergo such a dramatic change?

They had seen many stories of starting from scratch on television and in the news.

For them, those legendary figures have always been distant and unattainable.

But now, this very person has appeared in their lives.

In just four months, Yang Lin went from being an impoverished village boy to a wealthy man in a small town with a net worth of tens of millions.

Even the village's dishonest gambler, who was the most troublesome yet impossible to deal with, fell victim to Yang Lin.

Moreover, thanks to Yang Lin, almost everyone in the village, young and old, could work at the forest farm.

With the same amount of labor, the wages at the forest farm are higher than at other construction sites, it's closer to home, and the work is about the same intensity as farming, so it's not too tiring.

Over the course of several months, the villagers' income has increased significantly compared to this time of year, and their living standards have improved considerably. Almost every household has started using motorcycles.

Going to the market is much more convenient than before.

All of this was because the 800 acres of woodland that Yang Lin contracted successfully grew shiitake mushrooms.

Faced with such a wealthy man who is worth tens of millions and has also helped increase the income of the villagers.

No one would act arrogantly in front of Yang Lin.

The same goes for the village chief and the Party branch secretary.

The village is now running a cooperative, and the village chief has become the cooperative's president.

They were entrusted with important responsibilities by their superiors and also held real benefits.

In contrast, there are greater responsibilities and heavier burdens.

Since taking over the cooperative, in addition to organizing people to transform the mountain forest, the village chief also sets aside time every day to brush up on the cultivation techniques of understory fungi.

Currently, more than 100 mu of the cooperative's 1,000 mu of woodland has been freed up.

The first round of planting trials can be started at any time.

This is also why the village chief approached Yang Lin today.

A thousand acres of forest land is too large.

Even with the support of the county, given the current conditions of Qingshan Village, there is simply no way to make full use of that thousand acres of land all at once.

Therefore, after discussing it with the villagers, the village chief decided to develop the project in batches.

We first set aside an area of ​​about 100 acres to plant shiitake mushrooms in advance and put them into production first.

To accumulate more planting and market experience.

The remaining 900 acres will be renovated simultaneously.

Once the 100 acres of shiitake mushrooms have grown successfully and been sold, the funds will be recovered.

It is estimated that some of the remaining forest area has already been transformed.

They can use the recovered funds to invest in new production.

Only in this way can they use their limited funds to develop this thousand acres of forest land.

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"So the village chief wants to order 100 mu of mushroom spawn first. That's fine, I also wanted to discuss this with the village chief."

Accompanying the village chief were the village party secretary, resident cadres, and several village representatives, including Wang Lu and Wang Youcai, who were familiar with Yang Lin.

Upon learning the purpose of the village chief's visit, Yang Lin quickly invited the village chief and others to the forest farm's office.

The two parties continued to discuss the terms of the purchase scale of the strains, the price of the strains, the quantity of mushroom sticks, the delivery date, and after-sales guarantees.

In the edible fungi production industry, strains are generally classified into primary strains, secondary strains, and tertiary strains.

Among them, the primary species is also known as the mother species.

It is obtained by professional technicians who directly isolate mushroom spores or mycelia from mushroom tissue and culture them in test tubes or culture media.

The mother culture is scarce, with only a few grams of culture produced per test tube. It is expensive and is the starting point for a microbial culture system.

It is mainly used for the storage and propagation of bacterial strains.

Secondary species are also known as original species.

It is produced by transferring the primary mother culture onto a solid substrate (such as sawdust, straw, manure, etc.) for expansion cultivation.

The strains at this stage are mainly used for the propagation of tertiary strains.

It can be cultivated on a small scale under experimental conditions, but it cannot be used directly for production cultivation.

Tertiary varieties, also known as cultivated varieties, are derived from secondary varieties through further propagation.

At this stage, the spawn is often bagged and processed into spawn logs.

It can be put into practical cultivation and use.

The mushroom spawn purchased by mushroom farmers are mostly third-grade spawn.

The strain of fungus that Yang Lin and the village chief were discussing was also a third-level strain.

The unit of microbial culture is measured in microbial logs.

According to the price of mushroom spawn in Nanzhao Province, a 18*60 cm spawn log costs between 3.1 and 5.2 yuan.

The composition of the mushroom substrate and the quantity purchased vary depending on the quality of the strain.

In terms of substrate composition, when inoculated with the same batch of cultivars, substrates made from linden wood are of the best quality, the most expensive, and the most costly.

Mushroom substrate made from mixed wood is the second most expensive and has the lowest cost.

The cheapest option is the mushroom substrate made from straw.

Yang Lin had just taken over the company, recruited staff, and introduced production equipment.

We haven't had time to find and contact timber suppliers yet.

The mushroom substrate that the factory can currently produce on a large scale uses straw as the basic raw material.

After all, his forest farm has already mastered a relatively complete straw supply chain.

The cost of straw is less than 400 yuan per ton. After adding the company's labor costs, operating costs, auxiliary material costs and equipment depreciation costs, the cost of a mushroom log is about one yuan.

If the company operates well, the number of subsequent orders will be large.

When averaged out, the cost of mushroom substrate still has a lot of room for reduction.

He is confident that he can keep the cost of the mushroom sticks below one yuan per stick.

Therefore, Yang Lin's offer to the village chief and others was very reasonable.

Don't give me 5.2 yuan, and don't give me 3.1 yuan.

It only costs 2.6 yuan.

For just 2.6 yuan, you can take home a high-quality strain of bacteria.

Moreover, Yang Lin is also willing to provide post-sale guarantees.

Once you buy his spawn and take care of the mushroom logs using normal management practices, he can guarantee that the fruiting rate of the logs will be greater than 95%.

Furthermore, the yield of mushrooms from each mushroom log will not be less than one and a half pounds.

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"Xiao Lin, we're from the same village, and we need a lot, could you give us a discount?"

"We're not just looking for one or two acres; we want hundreds of acres, hundreds of thousands of bamboo shoots, a deal worth millions. Do you think we could lower the price a bit more?"

"Two yuan a stick?" the village chief and others bargained.

"Village chief, I've already made a lot of concessions to the village. You should know that even straw mushroom sticks, as long as they've been inoculated, are priced at three yuan or more," Yang Lin sighed.

"Alright then, since we're all from the same village, I'll only charge you two yuan and forty cents. That's the lowest price I can go. I can't go any lower."

After some haggling, the final price for the mushroom sticks was set at 2.4 yuan per stick.

The cooperative plans to introduce 500,000 bamboo sticks into its 100 mu (approximately 6.7 hectares) of woodland.