HARBIN: After bending over the whole morning amid a jungle of fungus-growing bags, Ding Chengliang stepped out of the greenhouse, stretched and took a breath of spring air. Ding is the technical director of a fungus farm in the city of Dongning, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. His job is monitoring the growth of black fungi on the surfaces of fungus-growing bags in the farm’s 76 greenhouses.
The greenhouses produce 15 million fungus-growing bags every year. Three-quarters of the bags are sold to local farmers, generating some 15 million yuan (about $2.2 million) of annual output. The farm uses the rest of the bags to grow fungi for sale, reaping another 15 million yuan of output, according to Ding.
–The Daily Mail-China
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