Like hot cakes: Taijiang County daily sells 150kg of mushrooms

Jul 06, 2017

For recent day, at 3 o’clock before dawn, more than 50kg of fresh mushrooms are daily shipped to open fair from Songling Mushroom Base of Jiaowang Village, Fangzhao Town, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province of China.

Songling Mushroom Base is the demonstration site of mushroom industry development in Fangzhao Town, the industry holds the investment of over 600,000 CNY. In addition, mushroom greenhouse that covers 1000 square meters and mushroom-bag production workshop that occupies 260 square meters have been built for production of Brazil mushroom, Oyster mushroom, Shiitake, Morel and other varieties. What’s more, the base has also signed stack of orders with surrounding restaurants, schools, small retailers and government departments, the daily sales volume comes to at least 150 kg.

“By virtues of favorable ecological environment, special climate conditions and the development of poverty-alleviation industry, high-quality mushrooms produced from the base are quite favored by customers, at present, the base produces 2000 mushroom bags per day,” said the related chief passionately, continuing to indicate that they are going to constantly expand cultivation scale and ramp up production by a large margin so as to further lift poor households out of bitter poverty.