How This Singaporean Moved To Thailand To Be A Mushroom Farmer | On The Red Dot | Full Episode

Singaporean William Leong, a former insurance manager, was inspired to become a farmer after visiting a mushroom fruiting chamber in 2017. Today, his mushroom farm in Thailand produces more than 40 tons of oyster mushrooms per year, for local consumption. How did he learn to grow mushrooms? What does it take to become a successful farmer there? William shares his secret with Host Ming Tan.
0:00 Introduction
2:21 Delivering harvested mushrooms to market
5:33 Where do mushrooms grow?
8:13 How I became a mushroom farmer
11:50 Preparing mushroom bags for growth
17:30 How do mushrooms grow?
18:23 Educating students on farming mushrooms
20:13 Harvesting mushroom in fruiting chamber
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[@icyneri2531]

Thank you for sharing this story. I love how he gives back to the community, the school and the children is able to benefit. Im a new mushroom grower and my first goal as to why i started my mushroom is that i can someday be able to share to people who cannot afford to put food on the table and give them a start up bags for them to grow mushrooms and also maybe even make a little profit. The school idea is great, as many children simply just dont have the means to eat at home 3x a day and the school usually does the feeding. This is an inspiration and a sign for me to keep pushing to achieve my goal. I was about to give up after 2weeks of growing as i could not see a single pin, but i realize i need to understand how a mushroom grows and be patient. So thank you for sharing.

[@rajivsingh4721]

Awesome,very beautiful story of passion and success

[@wendyshoowaiching4161]

Oyster Mushrooms are delicious. I love it especially stir fried and steamboat.

[@groovynerd]

nice doc. how bout a craft beer brewery next time ?

[@razzahling8951]

well played very adventurous man

[@cdy7048]

Was this uploaded wrongly? Saw it a few days ago but it was private

[@lineage13]

I thought foreigners aren't allowed to do any agricultural businesses?

[@MysticScapes]

Finally the Intern fixed the title

[@mkleng]

If the mushrooms are already sporing in the fruiting chamber, it is TOO LATE. Need to harvest much earlier!

[@wendyshoowaiching4161]

What you using expensive gas. You have free wood, solar farm, cheap electricity

[@mkleng]

After so many years, still no break even - that doesn’t sound right for a commercial mushroom farm. Too complicated a Singaporean process. 😂

[@Milo-cf9vz]

i think it looks Singy.

[@nicholascage3699]

First my must hv capital and we dat u can be anything