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Rank: Hello Joined: 10/1/2011 Posts: 6
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Mushroom farming and production is a very important emerging crops industry. It contributes significantly to food security programmes especially to the recurrent droughts, for it is independent of seasons or climate conditions. Through the commonly employed indoors farming technology, farmers are able to regulate the micro-climate conditions suitable for each mushroom at every growing stage.
-Requires little labor, space and investment thus ensuring a farmer high profit returns, over a short period of time on minimum investment.
-Have high protein, mineral and vitamin content and hence an excellent food for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It is valuable to the aged, children and the sick. It has important medicinal values.
The challenge am currently facing is to service my orders due to lack of enough capacity to sustain supply cycles.ANYONE OUT THERE INTERESTED?
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2011 Posts: 322 Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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Here's a good link with valuable information that might help you: http://www.kari.org/bien...0CHAIN%20IN%20KENYA.pdf
Best, Hill
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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waweru john wrote:Mushroom farming and production is a very important emerging crops industry. It contributes significantly to food security programmes especially to the recurrent droughts, for it is independent of seasons or climate conditions. Through the commonly employed indoors farming technology, farmers are able to regulate the micro-climate conditions suitable for each mushroom at every growing stage.
-Requires little labor, space and investment thus ensuring a farmer high profit returns, over a short period of time on minimum investment.
-Have high protein, mineral and vitamin content and hence an excellent food for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It is valuable to the aged, children and the sick. It has important medicinal values.
The challenge am currently facing is to service my orders due to lack of enough capacity to sustain supply cycles.ANYONE OUT THERE INTERESTED?
What varieties are you growing?
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Rank: Hello Joined: 10/1/2011 Posts: 6
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2011 Posts: 322 Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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The key to great success in this venture is the truffle. Even better is the Perigord black truffle. If you can figure out how to set up a successful truffle farm in Kenya, using what you already know about growing buttons, that would bring a great return on investment.
There are companies such as Truffle Tree that sell trees that have truffles already growing in them, but they are expensive considering how many you would need for a farm. Maybe you can get one or two, then do research to figure out how to replicate the process locally.
If you can figure out how to "infect" oak or blue gum trees with the truffles, you could be sitting on a "black gold" mine. The demand for your product would be international and unending, as fresh truffles are always loved, but are always in short supply.
Best,
Hill
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/16/2007 Posts: 2,114
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@Waweru,
Are you growing the buttons in a 'greenhouse'?
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Rank: Hello Joined: 10/1/2011 Posts: 6
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not a greenhouse.
mine is a stone walled house.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/24/2007 Posts: 1,805
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Wow! Nice business opportunity right here! I Think Therefore I Am
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/16/2007 Posts: 2,114
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waweru john wrote:not a greenhouse.
mine is a stone walled house. Ok,where are you doing this and how long do the buttons take to be ready for harvesting?
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Rank: Hello Joined: 10/1/2011 Posts: 6
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in two separate sites in ongata rongai and matasia.button takes 9 to 10 weeks to start harvesting.you can harvest for 8 to 12 weeks depending on the quality of substrate used and the crop husbandry used. you may contact me options54@gmail.com the market is quite pleasant
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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waweru john wrote:am doing button Which others are there? He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 9/14/2011 Posts: 23 Location: Kenya
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intresting
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 6/1/2011 Posts: 47 Location: Nairobi
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@waweru stone walled house? my neighbor was advised to do a mud house since stone house needs air conditioning, cooling.... how does your work especially since you're in a hot area? I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill
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Rank: Hello Joined: 10/1/2011 Posts: 6
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the idea is to maintain relative humidity.its either the old style of mud wall and a grass roof or a stone wall with iron sheets roof where temperature is controlled by an improvised ceiling of reeds and cartons
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/1/2010 Posts: 3,024 Location: Hapa
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Elder wrote:waweru john wrote:am doing button Which others are there? shiitake, portobello, oyster Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali🐝
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