Xinzhou Button Mushrooms

Xinzhou Button Mushrooms

　　Mushroom cultivation is an emerging industry in Xinzhou. The city’s mushroom production base, Xuguzhen, is hailed as the “No. 1 Mushroom Town of Chu Tian.” A steady supply of high-quality mushrooms meets the public’s “vegetable basket” needs and boosts income for farmers in Xinzhou. In the development of this industry, the most challenging hurdles—market access and technical barriers—have already been overcome, but disaster prevention and mitigation have become an ongoing concern for mushroom growers.

Currently, the mushroom production base centered around Xuguzhen in eastern Xinzhou sees 15 major distributors shipping dozens of truckloads of fresh mushrooms to major vegetable wholesale markets in the city every day. Meanwhile, eight buyers from neighboring provinces such as Henan, Anhui, and Jiangxi are stationed locally to purchase fresh mushrooms.