In addition to shiitake oyster mushrooms are also grown. The resulting fungi are used as ingredient for the preparation of ketchups, dried, salted or pickled.

For growing quality mushrooms necessary clean air and sterile conditions. Shiitake is cultivated for 7-10 days in special units of a mixture of sawdust, chalk, bran and water. Each unit yields an average of 200 g of mushrooms. Fresh mushrooms won't last long! The implementation period is shiitake only 7 days.

The technology of growing mushrooms was developed by scientists of the forest Institute. Every three months in the institution purchase a uterine culture. Further processing for obtaining the mycelium and mushrooms and then runs to Domanovichi.

The company has developed about ten kinds of products of shiitake and oyster mushrooms with no artificial flavorings, additives and preservatives.

"Formulas are developed in the center of the food, and then we have based on these formulations do canned. Sterilization we are 55 minutes at a temperature of 120 degrees," - said the head of a canning plant units "Domanovichi vegetable drying plant" JSC "Combine "Vostok" Veronica Krapivko.

"First we control all the incoming raw materials for canning production prior to sterilization. Conduct a thorough inspection, check on radiological indicators. Then check the production itself, the sanitary condition, check every batch of range", - said the head of production laboratory unit "Domanovichi vegetable drying plant" JSC "Combine "Vostok" Natalia Lavrenenko.

The construction of a mushroom cultivation was conducted with the support of the authorities. At the moment, the profitability of production - more than 20 %.

"We have five large enterprises that deal with mushrooms. The production is 11.5 million tonnes. The exports of 10.5. Basically it is oyster mushroom, shiitake, champignons," said Deputy Minister of agriculture and food of Belarus Vladimir grakun.

Square mushroom plantations on the largest enterprises of Belarus is approximately 4 ha. Only in 2017 on export of mushrooms managed to earn over $23 million.

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