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MUAR: From college dropout to mushroom millionaire – that sums up the success story of a village boy from Kampung Grisek, near here, who is now the biggest mushroom producer and exporter in the country.
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Chew Swee King, 40, now plans to sell his Grisek mushrooms, named after the village, to the Arabs.His C&C Mushroom Cultivation Farm Company, cultivates several different colours of oyster mushrooms, abalones and the popular Lingzhi mushrooms.
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Chew (left) pointing at rows of Lingzhi mushrooms. |
“At present we export about 30% of our fresh mushrooms to Singapore and processed mushroom products to India, Hong Kong, Brunei, Indonesia and Canada,” he said.
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The company also supplies mushroom snacks to Singapore Cold Storage and NTUC (the republic’s multi-enterprise national trades union congress), besides Malaysia Cold Storage and the Giant hypermarket chain.
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Chew, who dropped out of college in 1982, said he planned to export his products, which had been certified halal, to West Asia.
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“We are hoping for a Malaysian organic certification for our products from the Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Ministry before marketing the Grisek mushrooms to the Arabs,” he said.
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Workers at the C&C Mushroom Cultivation Farm sorting out the mushrooms. |
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“After learning the basics, I asked my father to allow me to start a mushroom project on his land in 1987.
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“With the help of four of my brothers, we began to grow mushrooms and I set up C&C,” he said when met at his farm in Grisek.
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Chew said he later bought the land from his father and today the C&C farm produces about 150 tonnes of mushrooms a month.
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He said there were about 400 mushroom growers in the country, producing about RM30mil worth of mushroom products a month, and one-third came from C&C.
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