Black fungus annual output value reaches 140 million yuan, Xinlin District of the Greater Khingan Mountains makes its brand known
The black fungus from Xinlin District of the Greater Khingan Mountains, known as the "black tulip," had just been placed on the exhibition stand when it caught the attention of Chinese and foreign merchants. When the head of the American Millennium Company saw the product, he was immediately attracted by the black fungus and promptly signed a supply and marketing contract worth a total of 4.5 million US dollars. From this, Xinlin's black fungus entered the international market. At the same time, Xinlin District's black fungus series products also entered more than 10 large and medium-sized cities in China and began to take root and blossom across the length and breadth of the country.
In March of this year, the head of the Xinlin District Agriculture Committee went south to Guangdong and, after negotiations and consultations with the head of Shenzhen Yongfuyuan Industry and Trade Co., Ltd., reached a cooperation agreement. Yongfuyuan Company will order Xinlin District's black fungus in large quantities. At that time, Xinlin District's organic black fungus food will have the opportunity to enter the southern market.
What makes Xinlin District's black fungus sell so well? The answer is that Xinlin District has fully leveraged its resource advantages of purity, naturalness and freedom from pollution, and made a name for its distinctive black fungus brand.
Xinlin is a rare natural unpolluted land across its entire territory in China. Here, the sunshine duration is long and the temperature difference between day and night is large, accumulating unique natural advantages for this pure natural land.
Only when resource advantages are transformed into industrial advantages can a strong momentum for economic development be formed. The special period of economic transformation destined that people in forest areas, in exploring the development of successor industries and building an ecology-led industrial pattern, could not do without the effective use of resources. This has also become the inevitable path for resource-based forest areas to achieve scientific development.
The implementation of the strategy of "consolidating the foundation through ecological development, strengthening the district through industrial economy, and enriching the people through characteristic industries" sounded the clarion call for Xinlin District to adjust its industrial structure and develop ecological industries. On the basis of full investigation and demonstration, Xinlin District vigorously supported black fungus cultivation as an industrial project to strengthen the district and enrich the people. For a time, black fungus bloomed like black tulips under the forest and in the courtyards of the broad masses of workers and staff, becoming the first choice for family income-generating projects.
This year, the number of edible fungi cultivated is to reach 80 million bags on the basis of last year's 50 million bags, with an annual output value reaching 140 million yuan, and the processing volume of edible fungi reaching more than 500,000 kg . Xinlin District is full of confidence in the black fungus cultivation project. Last year, Xinlin District's black fungus output value reached 100 million yuan, 5,200 households achieved increased income and prosperity, and the average household income at the end of the year reached 19,000 yuan.
Behind the numbers are reflected the figures of leaders at all levels in Xinlin District who devoted themselves to supporting the people and strengthening support, and who racked their brains to grasp projects:
Holding up the protective umbrella for industrial development
With this funding, I can go all out and make a big effort this year . Yang Jun, a large black fungus cultivator in Xinlin Town who had just completed the procedures for a 30,000 yuan interest-free loan, was optimistic about the prospects of black fungus cultivation. On the basis of cultivating 120,000 bags of black fungus last year, he planned to further expand production scale and raise his income level.
Funding was the key to developing black fungus cultivation. To solve the problem of insufficient funds for cultivators, Xinlin District set aside 2 million yuan as interest-free loans, spent 1 million yuan to uniformly purchase micro-sprinkler pipes, water pumps and other equipment, and provided them to large cultivators and disadvantaged worker households at preferential prices. At the same time, it subsidised 3,000 tons of coal needed for spawn and connected electricity for cultivators free of charge, with electricity fee discounts of thousands of yuan. Bizhou Town also provided sawdust to cultivators free of charge, Hongtu Town delivered 200 bags of spawn to cultivators free of charge, and Tayuan Town concentrated manpower and financial resources on building a black fungus base, drilling wells and providing oil materials for cultivators free of charge.
If support in funds and raw materials is compared to a rain umbrella that shelters from wind and rain, then technical support unquestionably shouldered the important task of the umbrella handle.
Come quickly and help me see what disease my family's spawn has caught? My whole year's hard work is about to be wasted . Qin Jun, a large black fungus cultivator at Tayuan Forest Farm, because disinfection measures had not been properly implemented, caused green mold to appear on the spawn. Helpless, he hurriedly called the Xinlin District Agriculture Committee for help. After receiving the call, the director of the Agriculture Committee brought technicians and drove to Qin Jun's home. After carefully inspecting and analysing each operational step of the spawn, the technicians pointed out that the bacterial invasion had resulted from causes such as large sawdust particles and gaps when bagging, and provided him with relevant technical guidance. At present, Qin Jun's black fungus cultivation has grown to 60,000 bags, with an output value reaching 40,000 yuan.
Focusing on the actual demand for science and technology in the black fungus development project, Xinlin District fully launched scientific and technological assistance activities for the family prosperity project. Party and government cadres and scientific and technical personnel in each town and farm connected with black fungus cultivators according to the principles of proximity and local jurisdiction. Last year, the whole district held 8 training classes of various types, with 326 person-times trained, held 54 television lectures on black fungus cultivation techniques, with more than 80,000 person-times educated, and scientific and technical personnel went deep into the grassroots to provide household guidance 35 person-times, promptly solving technical problems for cultivators.