On April 21, in the greenhouse of the edible mushroom base of Lingqiu Chehe Organic Agriculture Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd., workers and masters were busy picking morels. Last year, the company actively docked with the Institute of Edible Mushrooms of Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, introduced advanced technology, and implemented the "Edible Mushroom Cultivation Base" project, mainly planting morels with higher economic benefits, and planting edible mushrooms such as Ganoderma lucidum and chestnut mushrooms in the off-season. The total investment of the project is 4.29 million yuan, the land along the river under the red stone mound is 23 mu, and 16 winter warm morel mushroom sheds and 1 new energy-saving vegetable greenhouse are built. Every year, morels are planted from mid-October to early May of the following year, and from mid-May to early October, ganoderma lucidum and chestnut mushrooms are planted, with an annual income of 454,000 yuan, providing 126 migrant jobs for the people in surrounding villages. While increasing the income of enterprises, it can also drive 762 poor households from 303 households in four villages such as the upper and lower rivers to increase their income. At present, it has reached cooperation intentions with NetEase Yanxuan, China Construction Bank Credit Card Center and China Unicom.
Morels are a rare edible mushroom breed, shaped like morels and named, and high nutritional value, is a kind of medicinal and food-using precious strains known as the "king of fungi".
