FHU3209 Agroforestry (Semester 2, Session 2017/2018) Agroforestry News (May 2018) | Page 23

Objectives :

1. To expose the student

on the agroforestry activity.

2. To provide firsthand experience to the students on how agricultural activity take place in the forest.

First Week

1. Setting up the plot for straw mushroom plant

beds

- Arrange the plant beds in line

2. Bed preparation

- Preparing the empty fruit bunch (EFB) of oil

palm after 2 weeks of fermentation

- Arrange the EFB in line. EFB use per plant bed

is 7EFB x 3 EFB, Each EFB must intact with each

other to enable the spread of the mycelium of

the mushroom

- Wash-off the plant beds to eliminate the

residue oil in the EFB

3. Sowing the seed in every layer of the EFB.

4. Cover the whole plant bed by using poly

beg.

Process involved for one cycle straw

mushroom

cultivation :

To be continued...

Setting of project :

20 mushroom beds

Each using 7 x 3 EFB

Each bed use 2 begs of seeds

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