Dignitaries on stage during the Welcome Ceremony in the Wanda Realm hotel.
John Peeters gave a lec- ture on phase III compost.
‘Sustainable Profits’ and ‘Marketing’. Following these lectures, the rest of the pro- gramme could commence - which it did often until the late hours. We will limit our scope here to lectures relating to mushroom growing, a sector that is making impressive progress on the gigantic Chinese market. Traditional Chinese growers mainly produce for exports in tins, but that landscape is changing radically thanks to the emergence of a number of massive, modern production ‘factories’. Dutch industry suppliers such as Christiaens, GTL, Hoving, Dalsem and AEM have made good work of commercialising their products in China in recent years.
Incubated compost
Chen Hui, owner of Alphay the biggest supplier of medicinal mushroom products in China, surrounded by fans.
Co-author John Peeters, who is also active as a consultant, presented the advantages of incubated compost from a tunnel plant. In his view, you can run a faster cycle with phase III compost so you can harvest higher yields of better quality mushrooms, there is less risk of diseases and the labour requirement at the farm is lower. This is commonplace on European farms, but a great many mushrooms in China are still cultivated on phase II or even phase I schedules. A condition required by phase III is sufficient cooling capacity, the machines require the right investment and the buildings must be constructed to suit phase III. But to reap you must first sow, a fact demonstrated by the success of the first phase III farms in China. Chris Alonzo, president of Pietro Industries in the USA produces 10 million kilos of mushrooms annually with his father Peter and co-owns compost company Laurel Valley (4000 tons of
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