Foreign exchange earned from exports in 2015 was US$6.613 billion! Henan: Mushrooms catch up with iron-sea combined transportation, increase farmers' income and get rich
Entering November, when the mushrooms were on the market, the mushrooms in Xixia County, Nanyang, Henan ushered in a good harvest again. In the greenhouses in various villages, the mushroom sticks were covered with mushrooms. The mushroom farmers went to the shed to pick and sort, and the merchants entered the village to buy This year, Xixia shiitake mushrooms were also sold all over the world by rail-sea combined express.
At 18 o'clock in the afternoon on the 4th, a Xixia Mushroom-Iron-Sea combined transport train loaded with mushrooms slowly departed from Nanyang Station and ran east towards Qingdao Port. It will then be reloaded at the port and exported by ship.
The goods transported by the Iron Sea Express train are mainly dried shiitake mushrooms and canned shiitake mushrooms from Xixia, as well as agricultural products such as fungus and yuba, worth 140 million yuan.
Since the opening of the Xixia Mushroom Tiehai Express, special trains have been successfully issued 20 times, providing a broader international stage for Xixia Mushroom.
From 2005 to 2019, the export value of Xixia mushrooms increased by 424 times in 15 years, and the accumulated foreign exchange earned from exports was 6.613 billion US dollars, accounting for about 30% of China's mushroom exports.
So far this year, the export of Shixia mushrooms has reached more than 4 billion yuan.
The small shiitake mushrooms are connected to the international and domestic markets at one end and the money bags of the rural people at the other end.
At present, nearly 200,000 of the 470,000 people in Xixia County are engaged in the cultivation, processing, purchase and sale of mushrooms. 60% of the farmers' net income comes from the mushroom industry. The mushroom industry has become the leading industry in the rural areas of Xixia County.