Morel is a kind of high value-added agricultural product which not only holds short cultivation period, but also shows easy cultivation technology. The climatic and geographic conditions in Yichang City, Hubei Province of China are suitable for Morel cultivation. In 2015, trial Morel cultivation got succeeded in Yichang City, Yichang Kunbo Biotechnology Co., LTD aimed at cultivation potentials of Morel and started to vigorously promote Morel industry with local farmers. 

This year, Morels cultivated in 52 mu of land have been ushering bumper harvest, according to know, average mu output on fresh Morel comes to 180 kg while the uppermost mu output totals 300 kg, the market price on fresh and dried Morel is respectively at 140 CNY and 1600 CNY per kg, after deducting costs, average mu incomes exceed ten thousand CNY, which indicates rosy revenues. According to statistics, in first half of this year, cultivation scale of Morel came to over 1000 mu while average mu revenues reached 12,000 CNY in Yichang City.

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.