Village officials cultivate mushrooms and villagers get rich together.

The picture shows Fan Yang inoculating a bacterial bag in a sterile inoculation room on May 2.

Fan Yang, 24, became a college student village official in Tianyun Community, Gushan Town, Jingjiang City, Jiangsu Province after graduating from university in 2016. Fan Yang responded positively to the call of college student village officials to start a business, making use of the advantages of the bioscience major he studied in the university, and together with several university graduates began the cause of cultivating edible mushrooms such as hericium Erinaceus and Xiuzhen mushrooms. They use electric thermostat equipment, aseptic inoculation room, electric heating sterilizer and other means to explore factory cultivation methods.

At present, the cultivation base in the early stage of starting a business has an operating room of 200 square meters, three greenhouses, and a daily output of about 150 jin of mushrooms. Fan Yang and his companions are going to actively open up the market, expand the scale of production when the time is ripe, set up cooperatives, and drive the villagers to increase their income and become rich.