Recently, staffs working in Xinyuan Mushroom Cooperative of Jiyuan Village, Jinxi County, Jiangxi Province of China have been engaged with the arrangement of Black fungus sticks.

Jinxi County is one of China’s biggest characteristic agricultural counties, cultivation area on fruit trees of honey pear, orange, mulberry and others totals over 700,000 mu, above 500,000 tons of waste branches are abandoned per year, which provides a mass of raw ingredients for mushroom cultivation.

According to local agricultural department, every year, farmers fully utilize bamboo crumbs, saw dusts, straws, husks and other agricultural wastes to cultivate over 60 million bags of Shiitake, Black fungus and other mushrooms, average income obtains above 70,000 CNY per household. This kind of cultivation mode has also realized ecological and economic benefits.