Mushroom Cultivation

Mushroom Cultivation



Oyster mushroom business is promising. Beside the raw mushrooms and the seeds, mushrooms processed food sales are also promising. Mushroom is known for it delicious and can be processed into various dishes. At first glance, the meat tastes like chicken. Mushrooms are very popular vegetarian because it considered as the substitute of meat.



Mushrooms, is an easy-to-cook material that can be added into some foods. Moreover, there are various kind of foods that can be produce by using mushroom like, dodol or kind of sweet sticky cake, mushroom crackers or botok. Botok is kind of traditional food which wrapped in banana leaves.



Settled in Wadungasih village, Buduran sub-district, City of Sidoarjo, East Java, the cultivation of Oyster mushroom or being known as King Oyster Mushroom. There are 33 mushroom farmers in this village which each of them gain Rp. 3.000.000 for minimum income.



This cultivation become an industrial since 2003. To pursue the cultivation is not too difficult. We can put the mushroom spores into a plastic bag that is filled with sawdust. This bag is then stored in a rack at the shelter mushroom, it called "Kombong Jamur." After 35 days, it can be harvested.



Among 3,700 packs of mushroom spores, it can be harvested at least five kilos per day. In appropriate weather conditions such as the rainy season, the harvest can be increase to 15 kilograms per day with a price of Rp 12,000 per kilogram.



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Sidoarjo Cracker Industry

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Sidoarjo Cracker Industry



Krupuk or kerupuk is type of crackers or snack crackers which is made from tapioca flour batter mixed with some ingredients such as shrimp or fish flavor. Crackers made by steaming batter before thinly cut, dried in the sun and fried with a lot of cooking oil.



Krupuk is an Indonesian favourit side-dish that can be completing the meal during breakfast, lunch or even dinner.



Sidoarjo is, once again, one of the famous producer for this industrial. Among 15000 Small and Medium Enterprises in Sidoarjo, most of them are belongs to cracker industrial. Along Majapahit street, there are several stores that provide Sidoarjo particular snacks, especially crackers. You just choose which you like; ready to eat crackers, or raw crackers to be your gift.



At first, people only know that Sidoarjo is famous for its prawn crackers and fish crackers. However, today there are so many variant of crackers that can be found in Sidoarjo, instead of shrimp and fish crackers, like oyster cracker, keterung cracker (a type of jellyfish), this is the most expensive compared to shrimp and fish crackers because the raw material for the cracker is quite difficult to get.



The stalls that sell Sidoarjo snacks are fairly easy to reach because it is located in the center of town, both in the way to Surabaya or Malang. The taste is very special compare to any other cracker from other area, that makes Sidoarjo cracker become popular among the customers.



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