2014
DOI: 10.4236/me.2014.512100
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Study on Survival Strategies of Farmers Engage in Small-Scale Household Cultivation of Edible Mushrooms: Take Shandong Province as an Example

Abstract: Small-scale household production of edible mushrooms by farmers is the major source of edible mushrooms in China. However, large-scale enterprises who engage in commercial cultivation of edible mushrooms has been growing at a relatively fast pace, bringing about challenges for smallscale farmers. With the purpose of help maintain small-scale farmers' ability to survive in this fiercely competitive landscape, this paper first analyzes their competitive advantages, disadvantages and survival strategies, employin… Show more

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“…However, 95% of the total China production is for domestic consumption (Zhang et al, 2014). In 2013, Shiitake had the best demand for mushroom consumption in China about 22.5%, followed by Grey ear mushroom 18.9% and Wood ear mushroom 16.8% (Li & Hu, 2014). With the largest markets, mushrooms widely cultivated only by small-scale farmers (Li & Hu, 2014).…”
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“…However, 95% of the total China production is for domestic consumption (Zhang et al, 2014). In 2013, Shiitake had the best demand for mushroom consumption in China about 22.5%, followed by Grey ear mushroom 18.9% and Wood ear mushroom 16.8% (Li & Hu, 2014). With the largest markets, mushrooms widely cultivated only by small-scale farmers (Li & Hu, 2014).…”
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“…The research result by Li and Hu (2014) stated that in order to survive in limited land, farmers tried to use these three main survival strategies, which were competitive differentiation, cooperation and product diversification. Furthermore, Christopher and Helena (2018) showed that Ileje migrants adopted a survival strategy, which was the intensification of non-traditional commercial crops such as corn, rice, millet and banana.…”
Section: The Adaptation Pattern That Performed By the Farmer Households In Facing The Changes Of Land Usagesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The implementation of oyster mushroom agribusiness in Indonesia requires strengthening the adoption of cultivation technology and post-harvest processing, institution strengthening, management optimization, and the use of production factors (Mabuza et al 2012;Iriantinah, 2014;Li and Hu, 2014;Febrianda and Tokuda, 2017). Farmers' willingness to starting oyster mushroom agribusiness is influenced by marital status, formal education, farmer group membership, mushroom consumption level, market availability, farming experience, and land area (Ongoche et al 2017).…”
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“…Some researches related to the development strategy for oyster mushroom agribusiness have been carried out by researchers (Iriantinah, 2014;Li and Hu, 2014;Dimyati and Astarina, 2016;Fatria, 2017;Febrianda and Tokuda, 2017;Ongoche et al 2017). The purpose of this research is to determine priority factors in the development of sustainable oyster mushroom agribusiness with OPEFB as the growing media.…”
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confidence: 99%