According to statistics, Yangquan of Shanxi province edible mushroom product area increased 400 thousand square meters in 2014. In the end of the 2014, the edible mushroom product area reached 560 thousand square meters in the whole city, the output reaching about 5 million kilograms, the output value reaching 40 million CNY.
The edible mushrooms are delicious and nutrition, its nutritional value and medicinal value have gradually get consumer cognition, and edible mushrooms having wide developing, it can be made into beverage, leisure snacks, mushroom sauce and others, having a wide prospect market. Yangquan city sights the development prospect of edible mushrooms, implementing development of scale, intensive, organized and industrialization, prompting edible mushroom becoming industry of enriching people’s food basket and increasing farmers’ incomes.