Songyo Mushroom Farm

The Songyo Mushroom Farm in Songyo District, Pyongyang, was inaugurated in February 2014.

Every year it produces different species of mushrooms in large quantities, including agaric, Auricularia polytricha and Coprinus comatus.

According to technical staffer Kim Yong Gum, the farm produces active spores by itself, strictly observes the requirements of technical regulations in all processes of substrate fermentation, sterilization, culture and germination, and grows mushrooms in a scientific way, and it is the key to boosting production.

It regularly supplies mushrooms to nurseries and residents in the district, and sends many mushroom substrates to other industrial establishments, farms and families so that they can produce mushrooms by themselves.

Its experience gained in mushroom production was highly appreciated at a sci-tech presentation in the mushroom production sector in Pyongyang Municipality last year.

Yang Ryon Hui