Lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) becomes a money-making "fairy herb" - how did Zhao Zhengying do it?

Hezhou News Network report: In Tiantang Village, Guiling Town, there is a widely known skilled grower named Zhao Zhengying. Through continuous learning and exploration, she successfully mastered lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) cultivation techniques, developed a lingzhi industry, and turned lingzhi into a "money-making fairy herb."

This uniquely shaped and brightly colored lingzhi is a new ornamental variety that Zhao Zhengying cultivated this year. Its market price is above 500 yuan, and Zhao Zhengying has already cultivated more than 1,000 of these lingzhi, all of which have been fully booked by customers. In addition to the ornamental lingzhi at home, Zhao Zhengying also uses dozens of mu of nearby mountain forest to grow nearly 10,000 edible lingzhi. These lingzhi grow in a natural wild environment, are of high quality, and are very popular. The wholesale price reaches 380 yuan per jin.

Zhao Zhengying, a villager of Tiantang Village, Guiling Town: "At present, my output is not very large either, which is to say, it is not enough to sell."

As the lingzhi industry thrives, an annual net income of nearly 200,000 yuan has made Zhao Zhengying a capable money-maker envied by the whole village, but only she herself can understand the hardships of building this industry.

Zhao Zhengying, a villager of Tiantang Village, Guiling Town: "At that time, we planted however we could. We even cut down trees and planted them raw. Then others said the wood needed to be steamed, so we used a boiler, the kind of pot we use to boil water for bathing ourselves. We put something underneath and burned it like that, and then the pot burned through, and the back basket also wore out, but not a single lingzhi grew."

Because she lacked technique, Zhao Zhengying's first attempt ended dismally. Helpless, she was forced to go out to work. A year later, with a little savings, Zhao Zhengying returned to her hometown and began a second attempt at lingzhi cultivation. This time she was determined to grow lingzhi well.

Zhao Zhengying, a villager of Tiantang Village, Guiling Town: "Then I continued planting and went to learn from others. When I heard that someone was growing lingzhi, I went to visit. During the visits, we could exchange experience, and also secretly learn a little."

Zhao Zhengying learned while experimenting. After several failures, she figured out the tricks of growing lingzhi, and finally succeeded in cultivating it.

Zhao Zhengying, a villager of Tiantang Village, Guiling Town: "At that time, I went to the field to look every day, and every day it was bare. Then one day I found a white sprout, and at that moment I was very excited."

After getting on the road to prosperity, Zhao Zhengying did not forget her fellow villagers. Under the guidance of Zhou Mi, the "first secretary" of Tiantang Village, she established a lingzhi cultivation cooperative, mobilized villagers to join the cooperative, taught them cultivation techniques, and actively helped everyone find sales channels. Zhao Zhengfu, a poor household in Tiantang Village: "Zhao Zhengying taught us techniques and led us to grow imitation wild lingzhi, which increased our income by quite a lot. We are very grateful to her."

Zhou Mi, first secretary of Tiantang Village: "In the next step, I hope to apply to the Science and Technology Bureau for a demonstration base, which is to drive more poor households to develop this industry. I hope all the poor households in the whole village can participate and truly escape poverty and become prosperous through the industry." (Hezhou TV reporter Qiu Baohua, Babu News Center Bai Yufeng)