Over the years, Shizhai Town, Feng County, Jiangsu Province of China has been relying on reality and vigorously developing modern agriculture and characteristic industry.

Till now, Five Thriving Industries which refer to Mushroom, Superior Fruit, Ecological Breeding and Photovoltaic Industry have come into being in the town.

In Shizhai Town, characteristic varieties include onion and garlic, and the most conspicuous industry belongs to Black fungus.

Black fungus industry holds over 20 years of history, now, there are 5000 standardized Black fungus greenhouses in the town, gross capacity totals 250 million bags, annual output on dried Black fungus comes to 20,000 tons and nearly 10,000 people are absorbed to get jobs within the industry. In addition, 23 specialized cooperatives have been built in the town, which contributes to annual average per capita income of 3000 CNY or so.

This year, Auricularia fuscosuccinea, Ganoderma and other new varieties have been successively introduced, which helped broaden farmers’ road to become well-off.

In a small section of Pennsylvania, indoor farms are producing more than a million pounds of mushrooms every day.

Farmers in Chester County, Pennsylvania, have been producing mushrooms since the late 1800s, when several local Quakers decided to grow them in the space underneath their flowerbeds, NPR reported in 2012, citing local lore.

Today, the industry generates hundreds of millions of dollars in sales each year for Chester County, which has also held a yearly mushroom festival for more than 30 years. The area’s commercial mushroom farms grow them indoors, which allows them to carefully control the environment and maximize production.

Recently, indoor farming — a model that commercial mushroom producers have used for decades — has drawn more attention as an approach to sustainable food production. Michael Guttman, director of the sustainable development office for Kennett Township, Pennsylvania, spoke with the PBS NewsHour Weekend about the area’s mushroom heritage and the lessons that mushroom production offers for other farmers.

For the complete article go to: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/this-small-pennsylvania-region-produces-half-the-mushroom-crop-in-the-u-s

Under the comprehensive influence of light, temperature, water, air and other factors, bud-emergence is pushed on surface of substrate. During the budding period, proper temperature range of mushroom house should be at 12-15 degrees, excessive temperature results in irregular, thin and weak fruiting while too-low temperature leads to less fruiting amount and output failure. Besides, ideal relative air humidity of the house is at 80%-90%, too-low humidity goes against to bud-emergence while sundry fungus contamination is easy-appearing under over-high temperature. Cultivators could moderately enhance oxygen content through the adjustment of exhaust vents in the house.

Following this kind of mode, lush, orderly and robust mushroom buds could be most possibly obtained.

When you walk into Jinling Town, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China, what might catch your sight are banana forests.

Jinling Town is famous for bananas, many farmers get fortunes by banana cultivation. However, Ms. Lin, one of local villagers, has created another prosperous road via her smart thought.

Under her unremitting leadership, mushroom industry of the town has been developed from nothing to prosperity.

In 2010, Ms. Lin established Jinke Mushroom Cooperative. Through years of elaborate operation and management, 76 members have been absorbed here and per capita income reaches 3600 CNY.

At the end of 2011, 8 mushroom greenhouses were established, a series of new varieties such as Ganoderma, Tricholoma giganteum, Pleurotus cornucopiae and Pleurotus geesteranus were introduced. By now, annual mushroom capacity of the cooperative obtains 600,000-700,000 sticks, annual sales income attains 3.1 million CNY while annual pure profits come to 520,000 CNY.

Recently, Shiitakes cultivated in Guanglong Mushroom Base of Fengchunling Village, Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province of China are successively coming into season.

Sudden drop of air temperature and large temperature difference between day and night greatly fit for growth of Shiitake. Since this year, Fengchunling Village has been taking construction of mushroom base as the core and vigorously speeding up mushroom industry.

By now, 8 mushroom greenhouses that absorb over 50,000 sticks have been built, the anticipated output value obtains 300,000 CNY. Mushroom industry effectively helps local poor households raise revenues while boosting the work of poverty relief.

According to Service Bureau of Mushroom Industry in Pingquan City, Hebei Province of China, now, trial Morel cultivation initially introduced at the beginning of this year is now realizing its success, mu output on fresh Morel reaches 1100 kg pure area and output value shows 176,000 CNY.

Pingquan City is the famous country of mushroom in China.

“Morel cultivation has realized leaping results. Firstly, optimal formula has been scientifically explored while high-output variety fits for cultivation of north China has been hunted out,” introduces related researchers passionately.

Now, there are 7 Morel varieties cultivated in the base, the largest fresh root-removed Morel reaches 18cm in height and 105.9g in net weight, and to calculate by actual fruiting volume of 195kg per mu and average market price of 100 CNY per kg, incomes on each mu of land reach 20,000 CNY.

In 2017, Dunhua City, Jilin Province of China has been complying with green transformation development, fully taking full advantage of the policies so that indicators on horticultural industry could be realized. By the end of this year, the anticipated gross output value is expected to attain 3.981 billion CNY, with a year-on-year growth of 10%.

Mushroom industry still remains at leading position.

By the end of 2017, capacity of mushroom cultivation  is going to obtain 630 million bags, the expected output value reaches 1.8 billion CNY in Dunhua City. Main cultivation mode refers to field cultivation.

In addition, cultivation capacity is expected to attain 2.8 million segments on Ganoderma, 2 million bags on Shiitake and 3 million bags on King oyster mushroom, Oyster mushroom, Pleurotus citrinopileatus and others.

In Dunhua City, 4 mushroom gardens have been newly built, there are 34,520 households engaging in mushroom industry. By now, 5 city-level leading enterprises, 6 deep-processing mushroom enterprises, 2 mushroom export enterprises, 12 strain-production enterprises and 126 specialized mushroom cooperatives have been built and developed in the city, which shows tremendous development tendency.

After the conclusion of The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, farmers living in Hewai Village, Tieling City, Liaoning Province of China have successively raising over 2 million CNY on establishment of Lvkuan Mushroom Cooperative with the help and support of local government and town parties, now, the cooperative covers over 50 mu of land and absorbs 50 members, within it, Phase One Project that refers to 30 mushroom greenhouses have been built.

“After a few days, we begin to launch the cultivation, the anticipated fruiting time is in the middle of February, the expected gross output obtains 400,000 kg and output value reaches over 3 million CNY,” introduces one of cooperative members.