Since the shooting of poverty alleviation battle, Jiaokou County, Lvliang City, Shanxi Province of China has been relying on its distinct climate advantage, implementing poverty-removal policy and guiding local poor households to cultivate high-output-value mushrooms, which reveals substantial efficiency.
With the average elevation of 1200 meters and annual average climate of 6.7 degrees Celsius, Shiitakes cultivated in Jiaokou County fruit during golden market period referring to June-August. After going through many investigation and repeated demonstration, the county seizes at that season advantages and regards mushroom industry as one of key development projects. Till now, three development systems that include Production Organization System, Technical Service System and Market Circulation System have been basically established.
In 2016, 1500 poor households in Jiaokou County engaged in Shiitake production, 3 leading stick-production enterprises, 2 processing and marketing enterprises and 45 specialized mushroom cooperatives have been successively built, besides, 4 mushroom demonstration villages and towns which hold at least 2 million mushroom sticks of output capacity, and 40 mushroom villagers have been developed. Furthermore, Jiaokou County actively conducts matching operation with 14 nationwide marketing networks, mushroom products are mainly exported to America, Japan, Canada and other nations. During June-August of 2016, Jiaokou County enjoyed peak Shiitake season both on production and marketing, gross output came to over 9 million kg while output value totaled nearly 100 million CNY.
In the future, the county plans to broaden other varieties such as Black fungus and medicinal mushrooms, firmly strengthen mushroom industry. By the end of 13th Five-Year Plan, scale of mushroom cultivation is expected to reach 50 million sticks, over 10,000 households could be leaded to embark on mushroom cultivation while incomes per household could obtain 20,000 CNY. At that time, mushrooms are not only charming landmark brand, but also attractive card for external flack.