Hanya sharing saja, mudah-mudahan info ini ada gunanya. Salam, Dete >Water hyacinth-based mushroom farming > >http://www.zeri.org/news/flash/00/000321.htm > >Margaret Tagwira, a mushroom farming pioneer in Africa, has now successfully >introduced a new type of mushroom farming - one that uses water hyacinth as the >substrate for growing mushrooms. Margaret is based at the Africa University in >Mutare, Zimbabwe. First, Margaret succeeded in establishing mushroom farming >in Zimbabwe and recently, with the support of UNDP, this mushroom farming has >been expanded to Malawi. > >Perhaps the most surprising success of Mrs. Tagwira is the launching of >tropical mushroom farming in Choco, Colombia. Following the 5th World >Congress on ZERI in Colombia last year, Mrs. Tagwira visited el Choco. El Choco >is a coastal state with nearly 99 percent of its population being of direct African >descent. Margaret directed a week-long training program there last October. This >program has now lead to the first domestication of a nutritional mushroom native >to Choco, Colombia - the Auricularia auricula or "Jew's Ear fungus". This is >one of the prime edible mushrooms which grows in abundance in Choco. > >Thanks to tissue culture that was provided by CENICAFE (the national coffee research >center), and a hands-on training at CIAO (the International Center of Organic >Agriculture), a core team of mushroom pioneers are prepared to take responsibility >for the mushroom industry in el Choco. The substrate will be made from wood dust >from saw mills, which are one of the main sources of river pollution in the area >today. > >Also, in her home country Zimbabwe, Mrs. Tagwira has succeeded in >domesticating a local variety of Ganoderma lucidum, a prime medicinal >mushroom. She first identified the species in Benin, and is now successfully >farming it in Zimbabwe. She also plans to have this mushroom available for commercial >farming for the orphans in the region. >The domesticated Ganoderma lucidum will be grown by HIV orphans, in a program >run by Mrs. Tagwira. This program will help the children to enhance their own >immune system without having to depend on the very expensive medicines developed >in the West. > >Ganoderma lucidum is a mushroom that has been used in China for thousands of >years because of its ability to strengthen the immune system. A number of scientific >studies from China, Japan and Korea have recently confirmed the medicinal strength >of this mushroom. > >The digital camera with which the following pictures were taken in >Africa was kindly donated by the Marion Foundation. > > >################################################### > >This news item was sent to you by: >Anna Ardin >ZERI Foundation >http://www.zeri.org > >If you only want to receive a monthly summary of ZERI news, reply to this message >with MONTHLY, in the subject line. > >If you do not wish to receive messages from the ZERI Foundation, reply to this >message with only the word UNSUBSCRIBE, in the subject line and leave the message >body blank. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulai langganan: kirim e-mail ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop langganan: kirim e-mail ke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive ada di http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
