A few days ago 20 greenhouses of Chestnut mushrooms cultivation built with 900 thousand Yuan by Xizhuangwo village of Lingshou county in Hebei province ushered in good harvest. In the greenhouse workers were carefully harvesting Chestnut mushrooms. A worker told the reporter that Chestnut mushrooms have harvest time about 190 days, a greenhouse could produce 1725 kg and average annual income is about 40 thousand Yuan.
It is understood that Chestnut mushrooms have scientific name of Grifola frondosa and have rich nutritional value. Glucan which are active ingredient in Chestnut mushrooms could increase the quantity of T cells in human body, strengthen immunity against tumor. Market development space of Chestnut mushrooms is very wide. With the efforts by residency working group of united front work department of county party committee and two committees of village, Xizhuangwo village in Lingshou county introduced Chestnut mushrooms cultivation, and now there are 68 households conducting Chestnut mushrooms cultivation (among them 35 households are poor). At the same time cooperative is established in the village, the village sets up cooperation model of “two committee + cooperative + peasant households”, and implements land transfer share, rents farmers land with 800 Yuan per mu for each year, and provides free mushrooms bags and technical guidance. The produced mushrooms will be sold with links between farmers and supermarket by companies, which solves worries of mushrooms farmers.