“as a result of unique geographical circumstances, climatic conditions and resource advantages, the mushrooms produced here are `short-touched white-coloured, fleshy and venomy' ...” on 27 august, a group of journalists from the north line interviewed by the dynamic china research company in hubei in 2025 went to the zhuzhou province's mushroom museum, where the lecturers were explaining the characteristics of the mushrooms in the county. On the screen next to it, the common brand of the “swiss mushrooms” region is valued at $20,580 million, which, for the third consecutive year, is at the top of the combined value of geographical indications in the food industry。
There is a long history of mushroom growing in the counties. In 1978, chinese agricultural university professors successfully tested the planting of twilight mushrooms in yang's shed in san liang town, county, and lit the “star fire” of the mushroom industry. For more than 40 years, local production of mushrooms has led to a shift from home-based production to the intensification of “business-based farmers” through the development of the labour brand of “hong kong mushroom growers”, which has led to the cumulative production of more than 100,000 farmers across the county, with more than 300,000 people employed in the entire industrial chain。
“in august of last year, i passed a special competency test to grow mushrooms along with the county, which more than doubled the monthly income of growing mushrooms compared to previous jobs.” the villagers of the three villages in the town of the manfeng shop in the county, wu zhong, opened their own red book and laughed so well。
Wu zhong said that he used to work outside, working hard and not looking after his family, earning $5,000 a month. The manfeng town talent centre then informed the villagers of free training in mushroom cultivation, and he quickly submitted his name. Upon obtaining the certificate, wu zhong and his wife grew mushrooms at home。
“in november of last year, 10,000 sticks were bought, and in march of this year, four mushrooms were collected, 3000 pounds, sold over 90,000, making 60,000 dollars.” wu zhong said that he and his family are now growing more than 30,000 greats, receiving an annual start-up subsidy of $5,000, and that the $300,000 loan requested is expected to be repaid next year。
In the districts, there are a large number of villagers, such as wu zhong, who have obtained a permit to grow mushrooms. Over the years, the community sector has taken the initiative to introduce a new model of “order training, targeted training, targeted employment” for enterprises and farmers in the mushroom industry, organizing over 3000 sessions of targeted training each year in mushroom-growing techniques, cultivation and management, live telecoms, etc., which has led to a shift from a “labour” to a “skill” “smart” type。
In 2024, the county social welfare bureau, in conjunction with the state shroom institute, published and distributed the country's first book on mushroom growers, including “handling mushroom growers” in the province's public employment entrepreneurship management system, and developed specific vocational competency assessment guidelines to promote the entry of “earth experts” on the job. In addition, the labour and employment sector offers training and services for professional entrepreneurship, implements support policies such as entrepreneurship training subsidies, lump-sum start-up subsidies, micro-enterprise guarantee loans and discounts, and provides subsidies of more than $6. 4 million per year, loans for business start-up guarantees of more than $45 million, incentives for villagers to return to their homes and start up “rural cooperatives” and the construction of millions of sticky standard mushroom sheds。
In the early years of its establishment in beijing and elsewhere, yusheng returned home in 2020 to form a cooperative of the army into the fungus industry, selling more than 3 million rods annually, planting 920,000 sticks of mushrooms annually and generating 300 jobs each year, generating 100,000 yuan a year for village collective income。
Today, the labour brand of the “hong kong mushroom grower” has led 100,000 farmers to grow more than 300 million sticks of mushrooms, making it one of the country's four main mushroom-producing regions, an important processing export base and the largest trading centre in the south-central region. The export of mushrooms, which is the highest in the province of hubei every year, amounted to $670 million in 2023。
“in addition to addressing the employment problems of 300,000 local workers, this labour brand also generates wealth through technology exports for out-of-town mushroom farmers.” according to the head of the district labour and employment administration, over 2,000 licensed “earth experts” travelled to the field to train 5,000 people, contributing to an increase of $120,000 per person. The hubei daily media reporter, irving, dai wenhui, wang yanhua, yan jia, yang xian, ji chu, hu
