One of the key roles that mushrooms/ fungi play is supporting the decomposition of organic matter, while keeping it moving through the carbon cycle. This makes mushrooms/fungi important in helping us tackle challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and food security.
As indicated by the United Nations
Africa is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events affecting various regions, impacting ecosystems and livelihoods, increasing water scarcity and contributing to desertification.
There is reduced crop yields, that have affected livelihoods of many who depend on agriculture. Adaptation strategies are crucial for building resilience in the agricultural sector.
Indoor mushroom cultivation requires a limited amount of water that can even be reused as compared to other crops. This contributes to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in dry areas while decreasing average rainfall leads to more frequent and more prolonged dry spells.
Mushroom growing improves food security because mushrooms are cheap and easy to grow. They usually grow rapidly and harvesting can start within a few weeks.
Through the provision of income and improved nutrition, successful cultivation and trade in mushrooms can strengthen livelihood assets, which not only reduce vulnerability to shocks, but enhance an individual's or a community's capacity to act upon other economic opportunities.
Eco Agric Uganda has a well-established mushroom growing center and is delighted to contribute to spreading how mushrooms are saving the world.
I am so grateful for your support that the mushroom growing center was constructed.
However, the mushroom growing center is not completed. It doesn't have a moisturizer and the ceiling is made of banana leaves.
Daily we fetch twenty jerry cans of water, each jerrycan is twenty litters of water. We fetch ten jerrycans in the morning and ten jerrycans in the evening
This water is carried on our heads from the well. As we carry water on our heads, we walk half a mile to the mushroom growing center.
On top of carrying water on our heads, this water is not enough and some places like the fruiting area and the lab are completely dry.
I am reaching out to you for your support to install a water tank and moisturizer to save our mushrooms and also save me plus the girls from walking a long distance as we carry water on our heads.
ITEM | QTY | Total Amount |
Completion of mushroom growing house | ||
Installing Card board Cealing | - | |
Timbers 4x2 | 100 | 219.18 |
Timbers 3x2 | 60 | 115.07 |
Card board | 66 | 940.27 |
Card board nails | 40 | 98.63 |
Nails 5" | 10 | 19.18 |
Nails 4" | 20 | 38.36 |
Nails 3" | 50 | 95.89 |
Nails 2" | 10 | 19.18 |
Labor | 178.08 | |
Sub Total | 1,723.84 | |
Installation of moisturising system and equipments | ||
Moisturising system | 1 | 958.90 |
Refregirator | 1 | 493.15 |
Welded big Steaming container | 1 | 547.95 |
Electrical packaging machine | 1 | 958.90 |
Installation of storage lockers | 1 | 273.97 |
Installation of inside doors | 2 | 191.78 |
Sub Total | 3,425 | |
Completion of mushroom training center | ||
Plastering outside walls | 1 | 1,369.86 |
Plastering inside walls | 1 | 1,917.81 |
Making the floor | 1 | 1,917.81 |
Fitting Metalic outside Doors | 4 | 493.15 |
Fitting Wooden inside Doors | 3 | 287.67 |
Fittng Metalic Windows | 3 | 287.67 |
Total | 6,273.97 | |
Sub Total for completing mushroom growing house and training center | 11,422.47 | |
Support young mothers with mushroom blocks | ||
Cotton | 180 | 3,945.21 |
Sow dust | 600 | 493.15 |
Coffee husks | 360 | 1,479.45 |
Lime | 20 | 136.99 |
Polythene bags- Kg | 50 | 205.48 |
Monitoring and training women in mushroom growing | ||
Fuel/Gas | 2,808 | 4,615.89 |
Communication | 36 | 1,479.45 |
Sub Total for mushroom blocks for young mothers | 12,355.62 | |
28,927 |
Lets have the mushroom training center completed by June 2024 so that we have a descent place from where we can spread mushroom Love
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