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| A villager in Qingyuan county, Zhejiang province, picks up edible fungi in his own greenhouse. (PHOTO: VCG) |
Qingyuan Forest-Mushroom Co-culture System (QFMCS), located in east China's Zhejiang province, was recognized as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on November 5, making it the world's only GIAHS related to edible fungi.
For hundreds of years, local mushroom farmers in Qingyuan have scientifically developed the edible mushroom industry.
They created a complex mountainous agroforestry production system with integration of forest conservation, mushroom cultivation, and agricultural production.
QFMCS is hailed as a "living museum" of mushroom cultivation technology and an important fungus resource bank in China, since it has the most complete evolutionary chain of mushroom cultivation technology.