81-year-old novice farmer launched a workshop for the production of mushrooms substrate in Aksubaevsky district
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan pays great attention to the development of small and medium businesses in rural areas. Today in every district there are people who have opened their own business and successfully developed it. One of them, Anatoly Samarenkin, opened a workshop for the production of oyster mushrooms in his native village of Staroe Mokshino, Aksubaevsky District.
The Ministry supported the initiative of Anatoly Samarenkin, allocated him a grant in the amount of more than 5 million rubles for the purchase of equipment, technical modernization and the construction of access roads.
But, the head of the peasant farm didn’t want to stop there. On November 15, Anatoly Samarenkin opened a workshop for the production of mushroom blocks. “We learned to grow livestock, corn, sunflower and much more, and mushrooms are a new direction for us,” emphasized opening the event, the head of the district Kamil Gilmanov. “Over three years, more than 230 million rubles have been invested in production.” The head of the district calls Anatoly Samarenkin the youngest businessman in the region, his mushroom business is three years old, but the businessman himself is 81 years old. He is an example of active longevity.
In the new workshop, the base for mushrooms is ready. From the warehouse premises, raw materials (sunflower husk) are supplied through pipes to the briquette manufacturing workshop. In containers, the raw material is combined with mycelium and at the outlet it is filled into plastic bags. Samarenkin's “Mushroom Kingdom” impresses with its scale and the latest technologies that he applied in the construction of mushroom production workshops. “Usually, drip irrigation is used in the production of oyster mushrooms. We introduced everything new to this new workshop - an automatic line works there, a new type of irrigation is fog irrigation, ”says Anatoly Samarenkin. “Before that, five tons of mushrooms were harvested monthly, but with the commissioning of a new workshop, there will be significantly more products.”