Edible mushroom industry helps Wangqing County, Jilin enhance its self-development capacity

In recent years, Jilin Province has based its efforts on local realities, continuously explored ways of industrial poverty alleviation, advanced poverty alleviation projects such as financial poverty alleviation, tourism poverty alleviation, ecological poverty alleviation, and enterprise-driven poverty alleviation, enhanced the “self-development capacity” of impoverished areas, and continuously accelerated the pace of poverty alleviation in impoverished areas.

In Tianqiaoling Town, Wangqing County, the vigorous development of the edible mushroom industry has brought farmers hope of prosperity. It is understood that the profit from growing corn was about 1,000 yuan per mu, and now with the switch to wood ear mushroom cultivation, income has increased by 15,000 yuan per mu. In recent years, Wangqing County has supported 86 villages in carrying out wood ear mushroom cultivation, achieving an output value of 825 million yuan.