Now, in mushroom base of Gan’e Village, Jianhe County, Guizhou Province of China, farmers are engaged with picking work of Stropharia rugoso-annulata.

Since 2017, Jianhe County has been positively guiding local farmers to draw on local resources such as weed tree, saw dust, rice husk, straw, cottonseed hull and other agricultural and forestry residues to develop the cultivation of Shiitake, Oyster, Stropharia rugoso-annulata and other varieties. By now, gross cultivation scale has reached over 3000 mu, the cultivation mode has not only effectively recycled residues, lifted economic benefits, but also protected ecological environment and offered jobs for surplus rural labor.