Aleppo-Sana
With a small project for the cultivation of white mushrooms in the Al-Safa area of Aleppo, four university graduates from specializing in agriculture and law gathered to draw the features of their own project, seeking to develop and expand it as soon as possible.
The idea of starting the project was formed during the university study days, according to the statement of agricultural engineer Georgina Faks to SANA’s reporter, to start implementation in a practical way after she and her colleagues obtained a productive financial grant that enabled them to start preparing an isolation room that included metal shelves, a mixture and sprinklers for mushroom cultivation, in addition to installing solar panels that alleviate problems Blackouts.
Engineer Antoine Rabat clarified that the appropriate environment for growing white mushrooms consists of compost or straw added to some organic materials, loaded with mushroom seeds, where the so-called process of incubating the compost takes place in two stages, each stage is 15 days, and the first stage differs from the second by the absence of soil to cover the compost within Constant temperatures of 25 degrees Celsius, pointing out that after the (shock) stage of mushroom breeding and production, the temperatures are reduced to 16 degrees Celsius and continuously irrigated and ensuring suitable conditions for them to ripen, as the period from cultivation to production reaches approximately one month.
In order to complete the project, it needs marketing, and this is the role played by the lawyer George Rabour, who is concerned with the marketing affairs of the project, according to the grant’s appropriations. isolation rooms and providing them with all the necessary equipment that helps them meet
The needs of the local market are supplied with large quantities of white mushrooms.
Engineer Gianna Hajji noted the success of her project, along with her colleagues, in mushroom cultivation, calling on the younger generation to harness their potential and skills in developing agricultural projects that support economic movement, especially mushroom production, as it has an important nutritional value and a good return, according to her.
Bariwan Muhammed
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