Mushroom Cultivation – The Business of the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

Mushroom  Cultivation  –  The  Business  of  the  Next  Generation  of  Entrepreneurs 

Family business! You benefit from a legislative framework favorable to small entrepreneurs. Low competition; the demand for mushrooms is 26 times higher than the offer! The materials necessary for producing mushrooms are very cheap and easy to obtain (straw, dung). Get profit fast! You have no less than 5 or 6 crops a year because the mushrooms yield the highest quantity per square meter! You don’t have to worry about space because you can cultivate mushrooms on overlapping structures! You work with your family! The mushroom market is open throughout the year, but especially during fasting times! Vegetarians and those who have health problems or want to maintain good physical shape love mushrooms because they are tasty and healthy. Forget the competition because, in Romania, the demand for mushrooms is much higher than the offer!

The mushroom farm The production unit was built in 2014 from the shareholders’ equity; this is basically a completely new investment made in an existing concrete hall with 4 halls, each with galvanized steel shelves on 5 levels of production with a shelf surface of 240 square meters each and benefits from advanced technology in the production of mushrooms.

The production is designed to achieve a 100% capacity, an average monthly production of approximately 20,000 kilograms of mushrooms at an average price of 4.5 RON/kg. The average monthly profit, in this case, is 2 RON/kg, thus a total of 40,000 RON. The numbers above do not contain VAT. The land area is ​​2100 square meters, and the existing building contains 800 square meters concrete hall + annexes (office space) and 60 square meters service house (2 rooms).

The investment is also composed of real estate property as follows: - Fast refrigeration chamber, standard refrigeration room, casserole packing room, parking dryer, 2 toilets, video surveillance system, alarm, central heating, and compost treatment centers for programs production, automatic watering systems for irrigation, the collection circuit being perfectly adapted to the production cycle through the technological hall for the supply of rooms and access. Virtually all parameters of production: humidity, temperature, CO2 concentration, ventilation speed, etc. are automatically controlled by the computer and can be programmed for each cycle. The production unit is in Halchiu village, 10 km away from Brasov city, very close to the bypass belt, with access to the main road through the servitude road. The location allows access to the cash & carry network, hypermarkets, and the vegetables and fruit market. The unit has all the necessary utilities: gas, water, canal, and power utilities.

The business is also sold with the possibility of a separate acquisition of a 2000 square meters surface with annexes, provided for warehousing.