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Promote industrial upgrading and transformation Co-create a new value of mushrooms

2025-12-10

The annual output of Taiwan's mushroom industry is about 140,000 metric tons, and the overall output value has exceeded NT$13 billion, accounting for 18% of the overall vegetable output value. In recent years, due to the increase in labor costs, it has also faced the problems of climate warming and weakening of strains, which has become a challenge for the development of the mushroom industry.

In order to solve the problems faced by the mushroom industry and enhance the momentum of the industry, since 2017, the smart agriculture-related plans had promoted to develop solutions to problems such as agricultural shortages. After 5 years, The Agriculture - Mushroom Pilot Industry project has successively developed "Provincial Industrial and High-efficiency Mushroom High-quality Compost Manufacturing and Application Technology", "Shiitake Mushroom Culture Production And Commercialization Technology Set", "Mushroom Intelligent Production Action Cultivation Room", "Mushroom Production Energy-saving Technology", etc., and guided the industry to develop the "Domestic Automated Packaging Machine". Through the promotion of various technologies and the application of technology, the project benefited the industry and mushroom farmers to transform the mushroom industry with great manpower needs into an energy-saving, efficient and intelligent production mode.

Before the introduction of intelligent technology, the industry needed to improve production efficiency due to the lack of labor, and the lack of equipment integration system and automation upgrade led to limited intelligent development in strains, cultivation, harvesting, marketing and so on. After promoting industrial intelligence, through equipment automation and intelligent management, so that mushrooms can be cultivated in a factory mode, due to the introduction of automation facilities and intelligent cultivation technology, the production process can be strengthened, so that the cultivation yield can be improved and the production cost can be reduced, thereby accelerating the transformation and enterprise operation of the mushroom industry and enhancing international competitiveness.

During the implementation of the 6-year plan, we completed 11 technology transfers, built 5 demonstration sites, and contributed to the investment of 10 pieces totaling more than 503 million NT dollars, reducing production costs by 81.8 million NT dollars, saving 44,481 man-hours, and increasing farmers' income by 16.2176 million NT dollars. The results of the plan to promote the intelligent development of the industry include the promotion of domestic fully automatic bags-production machines, automated processes and environmental control technologies, and the promotion of the establishment of the Mushroom Intelligent Agriculture Alliance.

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Introduction

Provincial Industrial and High-efficiency Mushroom High-quality Compost Manufacturing and Application Technology

 In order to improve the problems of labor consumption, energy consumption, low yield and uneven quality of the traditional mushroom industry compost production mode, a multi-stage temperature equalization process intelligent firmware system was developed.The system provides gas and circulation devices with integrated environmental sensing and monitoring components, using proportional calculus (PID) module technology combined with mushroom composting indoor fermentation technology to reduce air pollution, improve compost quality, shorten production time and stabilize yields. This technology enables the fermentation process of mushroom composting to obtain accurate and intelligent control, and the high-quality compost produced is implemented to stabilize the production of mushrooms throughout the year.

Mushroom Intelligent Production Action Cultivation Room

 The appearance of the mushroom intelligent production action cultivation room adopts modular, quickly removable, mobile and steel frame structure and double-layer plate library board, and its interior is made of PU material as a compartment to achieve the purpose of heat preservation and moisturizing. Its software equipment has a programmable logic controller system (PLC), which can be tailored to a suitable temperature and humidity monitoring system according to different mushrooms, and uses micro-mist humidification to achieve just the right amount of water supply, and can be combined with mobile phones to monitor remote computers through the network, and control the growth dynamics of mushrooms in mobile plant workshops at any time.

Mushroom intelligent automatic production module

 Q-YO BIO-TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. put into the production matrix automation, with a conveyor belt automatically sent into the automatic seed inoculation system, the yield is more than 1 times higher than the original, and 10,000 packs can be quickly inoculated per hour, which is about 15 times higher than the previous manual operation efficiency. From the manufacture of the culture medium to the shipment of the product, the overall labor cost, compared with the traditional process requires at least 85 people, the introduction of automation equipment and modules only need about 25 people, so the labor cost is reduced by about 70%. The accuracy of production capacity has also been increased to 93%, and inventory costs have been reduced by 20-40%, and the company's revenue is expected to gradually double.

Shiitake Mushroom Culture Production And
Commercialization Technology Set

 Due to problems such as climate warming and weakening of spawns, the production capacity of shiitake mushrooms is unstable, which in turn affects the livelihood of mushroom farmers. The introduction of liquid inoculation technology, changing the shortcomings of traditional solid spawns, and automating operations, not only saves labor and maintains the vitality of strains, reduces the risk of succession reproduction, ensures yield and quality, and can increase the sawdust bag yield of the fresh mushrooms by more than 10%. In the future, through the mass production of shiitake bags by healthy strains, farmers can buy bags directly at the cultivation, greatly increasing production capacity.

Energy-saving technology for
mushroom production

 The electric energy sensing system was used to actually measure the electrical energy required for the mushroom cultivation room, and the results showed that the inverter air conditioner could actually save at least 20% of energy compared with the traditional air conditioner. Not only that, the system also provides a warning function, the central Taiwan demonstration field has been tripped circuit breaker in the middle of the night in recent years, but through the wisdom of the sensing system to remind, the local loss caused is much lower than other mushroom farms.

Domestic intelligent automatic mushroom
bag machine

 Produced and published fully automatic charter flights, is the first set of domestic and has been on-line production of the latest equipment. Stable production speed in 26 to 30 (pack / minute), can be adjusted to customer demand up to 30 (pack / minute) or more, compared to the traditional package production model can save 3 to 4 labor costs, and has high efficiency and stable quality, has been the mushroom farmers and operators alike, the future also look forward to the equipment input to reduce labor costs and increase production.

Automatic handling system for mushroom cultivation baskets

 Mushroom cultivation basket automatic handling system is the use of automated warehousing system logistics in and out of the warehouse principle of research and development, mushroom cultivation bags of the basket from the conveyor belt to the system of the inter-room entrance gate, the system senses that there is a mushroom basket arrived, it will start the conveyor belt in the warehouse, the mushroom basket automatically transported to an out/ inbound transposition colonization base, waiting for the subsequent storage on the shelf positioning cultivation growth and follow-up out of the warehouse harvesting operation utilization.

The automatic film removal device of
the enoki mushroom shaping film

 The automatic film removal device of the enoki mushroom shaping film is used to remove the plastic protective film from the periphery of the mushroom cultivation bottle by means of claw stripping module with optical positioning detection, and the multi-dimensional spatial movement of the mechanical arm is used to remove the shaping protective film from the periphery of the mushroom cultivation bottle to achieve the operation effect of automatic defilming, solve the key technical bottlenecks currently faced by the mushroom industry, and greatly reduce the industry's dependence on manpower input demand, reduce production costs, and improve industrial competitiveness.

To inspection robot to solve manpower shortage and improve cultivation
management technology

 Develop an autonomous mobile intelligent IoT modules with self-navigation, obstacle avoidance, multi-point cruising, counting the number of the king oyster mushrooms, and multi-sensor data collection and uploading databases. The module is equipped with a small computer, network camera, industrial-grade sensor, robotic arm and Raspberry Pi for field-autonomous sensor numerical collection and photo shooting. The photo uses a self-trained neural network model to identify and calculate the quantity, and obtain the purpose of predicting the production quantity of the king oyster mushroom.

Handheld Spectrometer for Monitor of postharvest quality and Prediction of decay trend in Pleurotus eryngii

 Mushrooms are very perish after harvest. The post-harvest quality is subject to many internal or external factors during storage or transportation. Hyperspectral technology provides abundant spatial and spectral information than conventional RGB images. The collected information are able to reveal subtle features for detection and classification of substances. Artificial intelligence models have been demonstrated to learn the spectral characteristics and to find characteristic bands related to targets. Based on this concept, hyperspectral platforms have been used to collect a large number of hyperspectral images of Pleurotus eryngii. A handheld spectrometer was specially designed by this project based on the characteristic bands correlated to the post-harvest quality. Artificial intelligence model running on the cloud platform was also developed by this project to monitor post-harvest quality and to predict decay trend of Pleurotus eryngii in real time. By the end of this year the developed technology will be integrated into the information system of the mushroom packing manufacturers.

 Edge computing technology development
and smart mushroom growth monitoring

 Developed AI edge computing module hardware and image capture firmware, this module has a 320x240 pixel image capture image, the image capture interval time is 1 minute to 1000 hours and 16G memory storage space. This firmware has both light sensitivity and light capture functions, and the drive can be operated using the le4U-4 power bank. Using mixed domain transmission technology, combined with wired MODBUS transmission technology, IEEE802.15.4 wireless network, and Lora wireless remote transmission technology, the front-end environmental monitoring data can be transmitted remotely to the back-end farmer database system (Microsoft SQL database).
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