With mushroom farming, farmers can earn coachee from Rp 100,000 to Rp 300,000 per day. Grew rapidly from experience so far, Day concludes, mushroom cultivation can be received by farmers in time because it is relatively easy fast. “Parasitic fungus that grows fast and does not require extensive land,” he said. Oyster mushrooms, for example, can be cultivated with polybag planting medium arranged on the shelves. For the cultivation of oyster mushroom polybag 10,000 needed fund about Rp 20 million. Details, for seed Rp 17 million and making the house cultivation USD 3 million with the size of 6 meters x 12 meters. Of cultivation is to be gained about 60 pounds of mushrooms every day.

Lately, the price of oyster mushrooms around Rp 6500 per kg from the hands of farmers. In the modern market price of the oyster mushroom reaches Rp 22.500 per kg. Oyster mushrooms growing consumer hunted because they have high protein content. Because of very rapid growth, oyster mushrooms should be harvested every day, even can be harvested in the morning and afternoon. The problem, which was cultivated mushrooms will die within three days of growth. “One seed oyster mushrooms will continue to harvest up to four months so that venture capital is the average going back or break even on the first two months of cultivation,” he said.

After successfully empower farmers in the mountains in the area of Sukabumi, Cianjur and Bogor, and then actively invite Siswoyoto small land owners in the city of Sukabumi. He made a pilot in Bhayangkara Road, Sukabumi city. “In four months the fungus was 24 farmers participating. They generally have very narrow fields. In fact, there are only 2 meters wide x 3 meters, but they routinely produce and enjoy the benefits, “he said. Some farmers even expand efforts to provide added value to the fungus because the fungus only good quality that can enter the modern market. They cultivate poor quality mushrooms into mushroom crackers. Once dried, fried mushrooms. The selling price of this mushroom crackers could reach Rp 400,000 per kg. In addition to farmers, mushroom cultivation began to practice the military and the police union. Day also accompany the cultivation of mushrooms in the Police Officer Candidate School Sukabumi. According to the plan, the concept of mushroom cultivation will be developed to equip members of the police force that can provide expertise beyond the official income.

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Initially, Siswoyoto never thought to have their own business, let alone cultivate mushrooms. He felt quite comfortable being an employee with a steady income. To be an entrepreneur inspired by a dealer in cigarettes and drinks. If cigarette merchants have only dared to own businesses, even expanding it from one place to 10th place to sell, why he did not dare? Siswoyoto then tried to find areas of business that can approximately he field. The choice fell on mushrooms because she often saw people in his village, Sleman district, Yogyakarta, like eating mushrooms, especially during the rainy season.

Starting from the conviction itself, in the spare time working, Siswoyoto diligent hunt for information until he met a head of the agricultural school in Sukabumi. Studying agriculture from the “expert”, he then made a sort of fungus gardens in the area pilot Cisarua, Bogor. Mushroom cultivation experiments ranging from seedlings to harvest done relatively successful day. However, that success can not be just the size to start a business. The reason, Siswoyoto not find a market that can absorb mushroom products on a regular basis. Network marketing “I got desperate because the market is still unfamiliar with agricultural products called mushrooms. The price when it is still very cheap, so my loss if this mushroom cultivation continued, “Today’s story using oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) Oister type oleim to empower rural communities in Sukabumi, Bogor and Cianjur. However, on the other hand, he also refused to stop the effort it had pioneered.

Siswoyoto then visited the traditional markets in Bogor and Jakarta to make mushroom marketing network. When the price of mushrooms is still relatively cheap, around Rp 2,000 per kilogram. The market began to form, from one or two traders, some traders were asked for the supply of mushrooms from him. On the other hand, production of mushrooms that he could supply to the traditional markets in Bogor and Jakarta are also more stable because many farmers in the footsteps Cisarua Day. “The farmers in Cisarua can even come to control prices because the market demand quite a lot. Farmers would have a high bargaining power of traders, “said Siswoyoto about conditions in 1997 were.

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