Shiitake mushrooms cropped on jujube trees gain popularity

Sep 21, 2018

Lin County, Shanxi Province of China lies in Yellow River Valley, and the junction part of Shanxi and Shaanxi Province. It covers 2979 square kilometers, governs 23 villages and towns totalling 631 administrative villages. Besides, Lin County holds over 655,400 of gross population, of which 547,500 engage in agriculture industry.
Mushroom industry began to emerge in 2014 in Lin County, starting from scratch, by now, 12 villages and towns totalling over 2000 population have been encouraged to launch into mushroom growing while mushroom industry has been seen as the NEW ENGINE that leads local masses to increase revenues and grow affluent.
In Lin County, total area for Shiitake farming reaches over 560 mu, annual output on fresh Shiitake comes to 7.5 million kg, annual production value hits 15 million CNY while Lin County has become the largest Shiitake producer in Shanxi Province, China. In addition, in recent years, the county positively relies on its resource advantage on jujube tree to boost Shiitake cultivation, Shiitake mushrooms cultivated via jujube trees contain multiple trace elements required by human body, and they gain popularity by general consumers.
Nowadays, Fenglin Modern Agricultural Technology Co., LTD is the largest mushroom producer in Lin County. The company adopts frame-pattern Shiitake cultivation in fruiting shed. And each fruiting shed generally absorbs 10,000 logs, each 2 logs output 1.5 kg.
“We currently hold 44 high-standard sunlight greenhouses, 33 Shiitake greenhouses, a processing factory of Shiitake log that occupies 1500 square meters, 2 refrigeration houses that cover 200 square meters and 1 spawn room, annual output on fresh mushroom comes to 400,000 kg and 4 million of mushroom logs could be annually processed,” introduces related principal from Fenglin Company detailedly.

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