Main Sector of relevance\IRC classification 1. Agriculture, Food and Marine Resources

1.44 Recommendations for shiitake mushroom cultivation (Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Sing.) on sawdust substratum blocks in conditions of forestry-based production

Developers’ contact information

State Scientific Institution "The Institute of Forest of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus"
71, Proletarskaya Str., 246001 Gomel

Summary

The recommendations set up a special system of measures providing for cultivation of shiitake mushroom (Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Sing.) on sawdust substratums in the controlled conditions for enterprises of forestry.

Description

The recommendations contain characteristics of shiitake as a biological object. Cultivation process of Lentinus edodes (Berk.) Sing. is described. The process includes the following stages: preparation of substratum, its inoculation, creating the conditions for vegetative growth and formation of fruit bodies, measures for disease and pest controls during production process, labour arrangements.

Technology type

• Other:
  Recommendations where shiitake cultivation on sawdust substratum in conditions of forestry-based production are described.

Technical advantages and economic benefits

The peculiarity of the recommendations contains in use of set-value raw materials, original manufacturing cultivation methods, complex of home equipments and materials. The output of shiitake fruit body makes 20-25% of the humid mass of substratum.

Technology differentiation and uniqueness

Carrying out the joint research scientific work and delivery of documentations.

Context in which technology was identified

The recommendations were used for TC project development for “Edible Fresh Cultivated Lentinius Mushroom” and “Cercidium of Edible Seeding Substrate Lentinius”, being pending in the Belarusian State Institution of Standardization and Certification.

Technological keywords

Shiitake, seeding cercidium, understratum, cultivation process, fruit body, yielding ability.

Development Stage

• Currently in use/production

Intellectual property rights

• Other:
  Intellectual property of the Institute of Wood of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Range of applications

Agriculture and forestry.

Classifier Used at the EU Innovation Relay Centres

• Agriculture, Food and Marine Resources

Preferable Regions

• North America
• Europe
• Asia

Practical experience

The recommendations are implemented in conditions of Additional Responsibility Society “Lesnaya Krinitsa”, Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Domanovichi Vegetable Dehydration Plant”, and State Forestry-Based Institution “Korenevka Experimental Forest Base of the Institute of Wood of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus” as well.
The recommendations were approved and put into operation by Order of the Forestry Ministry of the Republic of Belarus No 101 of May 02, 2007.

Environmental impact

None.

Type of collaboration sought

• Other:
  Contract for carrying out cooperative research scientific activities, organization of industrial growth.

Terms and restrictions

To be mentioned in the Contract.

Available technical assistance

• Documentation
• Personnel