Zheng Yanying returned to his hometown to start a business and became a guide in the cultivation of shiitake mushrooms.

At the Maoshan branch of Liaohe Farm in the Liaohe Land Reclamation Management District of Siping City, Jilin Province, people will give a thumbs up and say that she is the leader of returning home to start a business and grow shiitake mushrooms. Zheng Yanying, 40, has been engaged in the cultivation of Lentinus edodes for six years. In these six years, from the first five shiitake sheds to the establishment of cooperatives and now the establishment of a company, she has taken solid steps to lead the villagers to become rich together.

In 1998, Zheng Yanying, a migrant worker in Anshan, Liaoning Province, saw that it was very effective for her friends to grow Lentinus edodes here. Since then, she began to pay attention to this information. When she has time, she will learn the planting techniques in this area and find out the market. Every year when she returned to her hometown, she carefully inspected the shiitake mushroom market in her hometown. Through the investigation, she found that the cultivation of shiitake mushrooms in her hometown Liaohe reclamation area was a market blank. At that time, she thought that if she came back to develop the cultivation of Lentinus edodes, it would not only bring economic benefits, but also fill the gap in the cultivation technology of Lentinus edodes in Liaohe Reclamation area. If done well, she could not only get rich herself, but also drive people around to become rich. After nearly 10 years of meticulous preparation, in 2008, she and her husband returned to their hometown from Anshan City to develop the cultivation of Lentinus edodes. Since then, farmers in Liaohe Reclamation area have received another share of Lentinus edodes planting income.

With the beginning of entrepreneurship, land, roads, funds and other problems appeared in front of her one after another. After multi-party coordination, she built five shiitake mushroom sheds. After the completion of the greenhouse, on the one hand, she trained workers to learn the techniques of growing Lentinus edodes, on the other hand, she led the workers to be busy with planting Lentinus edodes before dawn every day. As shiitake mushrooms grow up day by day, Zheng Yanying feels that growing shiitake mushrooms is like giving birth to her own child, and every day is full of surprises. In the late autumn of 2008, she harvested the first bucket of gold for Lentinus edodes cultivation. This gives Zheng Yanying and the workers hope and confidence in their future development.

Zheng Yanying told reporters: "now I have rented 2.4 hectares of land and built 5 greenhouse and 5 cold shed for Lentinus edodes. Each Lentinus edodes shed can put 25000 Lentinus edodes sticks, each stick can be picked six times a year, one stick can produce 2 jin of Lentinus edodes each time, and a shed can produce 50 jin of Lentinus edodes every year. Now the average wholesale price is about 5 yuan per jin, and the annual output value of a greenhouse is about 250000 yuan. Around us, 13 farmers have learned to grow Lentinus edodes from me, and the largest one has planted 89000 sticks of Lentinus edodes. There are also some farmers who participate in shares, most of them are mainly based on raw materials, and the farmers who participate in the shares have an annual income increase of at least 1500 yuan. "

Reporter Yan Hongyu