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Showing posts with label Agriculture. Show all posts

White Oyster Mushroom Cultivation

White Oyster Mushroom Cultivation becomes mushroom production business and the better the prospects are very promising. Huge white oyster mushrooms for health benefits and can also be cooked with a full menu of culinary delights.Cultivation of white oyster mushroom cultivation is very promising because the way is not difficult and the market demand for very large white oyster mushrooms.

White Oyster Mushroom Cultivation trick is to complete his needs. Materials and tools required are:


A. Ingredients:

- Seeds should be a quality mushrooms.
- Bran.
- Clean water to moisten the bran.
- Dolomite lime to adjust the PH.
- Flour corn.
- Cotton.
- Sawdust (wood sawdust which is not homogeneous heterogeneous) and avoid the gummy sawdust.
- Bag Log


B. Tools:

- Media fungus or a special room to adjust the hot and cold temperatures.
- Shelf Fungus.
- The tool presses for compacting mixed media.
- Mixer tool seedlings (Spatula).


White oyster mushroom cultivation:



A. Media

- Sawdust added to water with humidity of about 50-65%.
- When mixed with the corn flour is corn flour composition (10%), bran (10%), and sawdust (80%). If no cornstarch powder then saw blade 15% and 85%.
- Mix with a variety of media until blended.
- Provision of dolomite lime to the pH becomes neutral or 7.


2. Packaging Media

- Put in a plastic material that is mixed media with a flat.
- Media and then pressed by the meeting but at the mouth of the plastic ring in the given function to include mushroom seed later.
- Close the media with a cotton tip was exposed to steam.


3.   Sterilization

Tricks of oyster mushroom cultivation could not be separated by the name of media sterilization. Because the media is in use must be cleared of microbia pathogens such as bacteria and fungi.


Here's the trick seterilisasi media:

- Enter the first sepatula that will be used to spread the seeds so as not to bother when seterilisasi tool.
- Sepatula bungukus preferably with a plastic lid and make it more secure.
- Insert the media and governance in the drum heater for sterile processes.
- Heat the media until the temperature peak at 90 degrees and bisarkan for 8 to 9 hours.
- Let the drums remain sealed to avoid evaporation of water at the edge of the plastic.


4. Seed inoculation Mushrooms

- Wash hands with disinfectant soap and spray it with alcohol 70% to minimize contaminants.
- Lift and remove sepatula of plastic.
- Open the lid and stir the seeds that are sterile sepatula.
- Open the plastic and cotton in the mouth enter the seed after it was closed again with cotton.
- Replace the media cover.
- Seedlings prepared in incubation.


5. Incubation Method

- Put the media that has been given a seed in storage racks.
- Length of incubation about 40 days with an optimal temperature of 22 to 28 degrees celsius.


6. Maintenance

- During the maintenance period should cover baglog slightly open.
- Keep the air ventilias smoothly in order to supply oxygen to the good.
- Perform watering every day, especially during the middle of the day to maintain humidity.


7. Harvest

White oyster mushrooms can be harvested if the mushroom bodies have grown big and wide.
In the white oyster mushroom cultivation to note is the humidity.but the more humid environment increasingly meicu of contaminants. Therefore, if the white oyster mushroom cultivation carried out in a humid sebainya reduced nutrient levels to inhibit the growth of bacterial and fungal diseases.

Luwak Coffee


Luwak coffee enjoyment and popularity had spread in Indonesia and abroad. Due to the unique pleasures and privileges, you must spend at least 80 000 dollars to get a cup of civet coffee.Especially abroad, civet coffee is sold at low U $ 50, about Rp 450,000.

Various local and international media, both electronic and print, have been widely investigated the efficacy and special taste of civet coffee. Talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show has also been discussed on the coffee this fases. In fact, the President of the Republic of Indonesia had given mongoose as a souvenir from Indonesia to the Prime Minister of Australia.

High prices are very reasonable Luwak coffee. In addition to the enjoyment of it, also the manufacturing process is unique and can not be produced on a large. Luwak coffee is produced only from the beans through a selection process of fermentation in the digestive system Luwak or civet. Thus, the production of civet coffee civet just rely on the availability of animals, both captive and wild.

However, from the above, it is where the business value and business opportunities that we can grab for a big profit. How do I? You only need to set up four basic points, namely providing mongoose, making cages, preparing the coffee fruit, and provide other feed.

If it does not have its own coffee plantation, you can cooperate with the owners of coffee plantations. Coffee plantation owners to ensure the availability of ripe cherries, with a system of profit sharing or sale. This business is very lucrative if managed properly and appropriately.

Another thing that is not less important is the provision of mongoose. You can obtain it through from the wild or from nearest livestock market that sold mongoose with a varied price range, according to the type and age. It should be remembered, ideal age of mongoose that can be used as a "producer" civet coffee should be above one year.

The whole process is fairly easy that anyone can apply. For more details, you should read the book Lucky Dredge of Business Kopi Luwak written by Ir. Edy Panggabean. This book will teach you gradually and easily open and manage a business in civet coffee.

In the book published by Reader AgroMedia discussed range from the history surrounding the introduction of Luwak coffee, get to know the taxonomy and life mongoose, technical preparation, maintenance, regulation of feed, harvesting, coffee processing, the chemical composition of coffee beans, civet coffee presentation, business and marketing, to business analysisLuwak coffee. This book will help you succeed in business Luwak coffee.

Benefits of Organic Farming


In one of the longest study ever conducted on organic farmingpractices, farming is done by the Rodale Institute based in the U.S. have found that organic soil management not onlyminimizes the use of fossil fuels, but also reduces carbon dioxidein the atmosphere by eliminating from the air and store it ascarbon in the soil. Scientists at the institute estimated that iforganic practices such as planting cover crops, composting,crop rotation and 3.5 billion applied to arable land on this planet,about 40 percent of current CO2 emissions can be absorbed.

A farmer can feed up to 30 people throughout the year with a1-acre vegetable sayuranm fruits, cereals, and fats. When the same area used to produce eggs, milk or meat, the number of people can be fed varies from 5 to 10 people.


With 0.75 Kg of Chemical Fertilizer, Farmers Harvest Roxburgh Good

Most residents are farmers Roxburgh, although it is difficult to obtain chemical fertilizers, but this is notdiscouraging for any residents who are trying to develop Ponorogo their farm using organic fertilizer, it has been they dobusiness since the year 2006, and was farming business is in great demand because it has proven Roxburgh residents withoutany chemical fertilizer plants can be fertile, even better resultsthan the use of chemical fertilizers.

This was disclosed one of the villagers wind Jabung sub Mlarak Ponorogo district that have been successfully using organicfertilizer 

"I use organic fertilizer was started in 2006, .. results and thequality is better ... longer ... needs less fertilizer organicnya ......and the results are even better again ...” 

Actually, the success of wind using organic fertilizers was the first time since he used fertilizer. But according to the wind it is stillnot quite succeed, because the seeds are still in the process ofstimulating the use of chemical fertilizers 2 Kg. according to thewind which was very successful in harvesting a crop is present,because the only use of chemical fertilizers 0.75 Kg wind has managed to harvest, even better results than the previousharvest.