Along with the short supply of saw dusts, many regions of China have begun to cultivate Shiitakes with apple branches. China holds abundant resource of fruit forest, every year, a large amount of branches are discarded, it is thus apparent that this kind of mushroom cultivation mode is rather commendable.

Huangtu Village, Shanxi Province of China is a typical case, through Shiitake cultivation conducted on apple branches, annual incomes per capita come to 50,000 CNY.

In the first half of this year, amount of material-input totaled 153,000 tons, output on fresh mushroom came to 159,000 tons while production value obtained 1.51 billion CNY in Binzhou City, Shandong Province of China, respective year-over-year increase refers to 2%, 2.2%, 2.3%, which indicates stable and favorable development tendency.

According to statistics, Binzhou City owns 9 stick-production cooperatives, 5 of which hold the annual output of above 1.8 million sticks. Besides, there are 80 units that engage in fresh mushroom purchasing and 6 large-scale acquisition and processing enterprises, primary mushroom varieties in Binzhou City include Shiitake, Oyster mushroom, Enoki mushroom and King oyster mushroom, regional development pattern of mushroom industry has been formed in the city.

Since this year, production project of rare mushroom introduced from Changli County, Hebei Province of China has been put into production. According to know, the project holds 1.2 billion CNY of gross investment, it sets production, industrial tourism and science popularization education into one, the present annual mushroom output comes to 14,600 tons, annual sales income adds up to 250 million CNY while 300 posts could be provided.

Not long ago, an outdoors-woman found a Golden Bamboo fungus while she was foraging for wild mushrooms in mountain fields of Gaolong Village, Hunan Province of China, the fungus was identified as Dictyophora indusiata by related mavens. According to know, Dictyophora indusiata are known as “Fairy of Snow Skirt” and “Mushroom Queen”, this kind of fungi are mainly produced in Yunnan Province of China.

“Dictyophora indusiata are featured as white color, golden Bamboo fungi are rather rare, especially for those that grow in non-production area,” said one of mushroom mavens, going on that Dictyophora indusiata refer to highest-grade variety and they were tributes of royal court in Chinese markets. 

Saint Petersburg plans to build a mushroom nursery soon. The project with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes also includes a department for raw materials.

The agreement has been signed by the local government and the company Vyborgec. "Mushroom production is a new area for us. We cultivate mushrooms and shiitake," says Alexander Drozdenko, Governor of the region. He stressed that St. Petersburg produces 40% of all the food in the northwestern region. St. Petersburg meets 60% of the demand for cucumbers and 40% for tomatoes. "Soon we will double the production," said the Governor.