P2269@com.qz.se ("ENG-LEONG FOO ", MIRCEN-STOCKHOLM) (03/16/89)
From E.F. Foo, Sweden Comment on message from Timo Haro, Finland Mushroom cultivation certainly fits very well as a discussion topic in Bioconversion. I met one of the organizers of the forthcoming international symposium on mushroom technology (China, Nov.1989) in Hong Kong last year where we also discussed the possibility of creating a mushroom electronic forum and on how to generate an interest amongst the "mushroom people" to use email. I hope BIOCONVERSION could serve as a fore-runner for the mushroom people. Mushroom cultivation is gaining popularity in Scandinavia recently and I hear that the Finns are taking the lead too. In South-East Asia, oyster mushroom and straw mushroom cultivation are most popular since they use local substrates like saw dust and paddy straw, both are tropical mushrooms . Could you (Timo Harmo) give us a short intro on commercial mushroom grown in Scandinavia ?? Thanks.