Mushroom farm a sparkling success

23 August 2000



Mushroom farm a sparkling success

By FWi staff

DISUSED diamond mines are providing the ideal location for mushroom farms in South Africa, reports the Financial Times.

Workers harvest pale oyster mushrooms grown in plastic wrapped straw along a kilometre of moist, warm water tunnels at Kimberley, Northern Cape.

Producers Diamond Mushrooms Farm can produce 6t of mushrooms a month turning over 5,800 a month and needs no expensive equipment for cultivation.

• US sees record year for mushrooms, FWi, 20 August 1999
• Mushrooming development in Stirling, FWi, 04 September 1998
• European Union may cut mushroom jobs, FWi, 03 August 1998
  
• Financial Times 23/08/2000 page 10