Producing 910,000 tonnes of edible fungi in 2022, Gutian County generated an output value of 6.2 billion yuan (about $864.5 million).
Xinhua Sil Road reports that, with over 50 years of efforts in the cultivation of edible fungi, Gutian County in Ningde City, southeast China’s Fujian Province, has reaped success in industrial development, brand building and improvement of people’s livelihood.
Producing 910,000 tonnes of edible fungi in 2022, Gutian County generated an output value of 6.2 billion yuan (about 864.5 million U.S. dollars). Among them, the tremella output exceeded 385,000 tonnes, accounting for over 90 percent of the world’s total, said a blue paper published on July 17.
Greg Seymour, President of the International Society for Mushroom Science, said during the event that tremella is a truly exceptional variety of mushroom known for its rich content of polysaccharides and polyphenols. These natural compounds offer numerous health benefits, including boosting our immune system, promoting healthy intestinal flora.
The county has continued to upgrade the cultivation and production of edible fungi in the past fifty years. According to Tan Guoliang, head of Gutian’s edible fungi association, riding on the wave of digitalization and intelligence, Gutian’s tremella production, logistics and sales have been gaining steam, forming a close industrial cluster.
