Cardboard Mushroom As A Side Business Of Urban Society

Interests of society to consume mushrooms continue to increase. Consumers are increasingly aware that the fungus is not only food, but also contain medicinal properties.This is due to improved public understanding of foods that are nutritious for health.

Mushrooms have a high nutritional value, especially the protein content of about 15% -20%(dry weight). A special advantage in addition to other plants are mushroom have low cholesterol levels, so that so many people who pick mushrooms as a variation of the daily diet to reduce the risk of high blood pressure.

Commonly cultivated mushroom in the pile of straw (rice straw), but abundance is not used or processed cardboard used to make cardboard into an alternative medium in mushroom cultivation. Agriculture cardboard mushroom into a solution for urban areas who wanted to grow mushrooms.

The cardboard comes from sawdust and wood is one of the mushroom growth medium. As a major growth medium mushrooms, torn cardboard and soaked with water and fertilizer during the week. Planting is done on a shelf in mushroom houses, cardboard that has been drained inserted into the rack mixed with layers of lime, bran, and banana weevil and kale. Once pasteurized for 6 hours, mushroom spawn have been destroyed and is mixed with glutinous rice flour and then placed in the top layer of the media. Harvested after10-14 days old seedlings after planting.