It’s false. Nongbo.com has relevant reports.

Investigation·Summary Speaking of breeding scams, the nutria incident in the early 1990s and the scorpion incident in 2000 have left thousands of victims unforgettable. In these two breeding scams, farmers lost hundreds of millions of yuan. A few days ago, many farmers complained to this newspaper that they have now encountered another "Cordyceps" scam. The incident arose when a unit called Chongqing Jincao Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Chongqing Jincao) claimed in various advertisements that its parent company, Chengdu Jincao (Group) Company (hereinafter referred to as Jincao Company), had successfully developed the drug. Under normal circumstances, an ordinary grower who grows 1,000 bottles of Cordyceps militaris (also known as Cordyceps militaris, a fungus) artificial cultivation project can earn a net profit of 20,000 to 40,000 yuan a year. For growers who grow more than 5,000 bottles, their annual net income can reach 100,000 to 200,000 yuan. However, many Cordyceps militaris farmers claimed that instead of getting rich, they suffered huge losses and even lost all their money. Growing Cordyceps militaris, is this a way to get rich or is it a huge scam? Investigation·Preliminary Study Faced with the temptation of advertising, hundreds of people are busy planting Chongqing Golden Grass. Located at No. 162, Daping Street, Chongqing Golden Grass was registered with the city’s industrial and commercial department on March 1 last year. The company created a “Golden Grass Garden” on a radio station in the city. "In the program and in the promotional materials provided to the students, the description of the advantages of Cordyceps militaris artificial cultivation technology is full of temptation: the technology is simple and mature, and beginners can fully master it in just two or three days; the investment is small and the results are quick, with an initial investment of 3,000 Yuan, it will be effective in about 30 days; the investment risk is small; the added value is high; the return is high. As if this were not enough, Chongqing Golden Grass went on to sensationally declare that planting Cordyceps militaris is not affected by factors such as site, season, climate, environment, region, etc., nor is it restricted by gender, age, or education level. It can be planted all year round. Planting is a practical and efficient wealth-making project tailored for farmers. The most important thing is that in advertisements before June 25 this year, Chongqing Jincao claimed to recycle products. In the information provided to students by Jincao Company, it is claimed that the cost of growing 500 bottles is only 750 yuan, the profit of dry products is 975 yuan, and the profit of fresh products is even higher: 4075 yuan. However, the high costs of technology transfer, equipment depreciation, labor, water, electricity, etc. are avoided. At the same time, in order to increase credibility, Jincao Company also printed relevant analysis and testing reports from various authoritative departments on promotional materials. All the information seems to indicate: Planting Cordyceps militaris has a bright future. It was under this temptation that from the establishment of Chongqing Golden Grass on March 1 last year to June this year, hundreds of people were planting Cordyceps militaris. This data comes from the statement of internal employees of Chongqing Jincao: Wang Yuanqing, an employee who claimed to have only arrived in Chongqing Jincao in April this year, revealed that (Wang did not know the identity of the reporter at the time), only two months passed from the time he came to the company to June this year. Within a short period of time, hundreds of students went to the company for training and then planted Cordyceps militaris. Before that, even more people went to the company for training and planting. When a reporter asked him how many people there were specifically, Wang made a rough estimate and then told the reporter that there are at least hundreds of people growing Cordyceps militaris now. Investigation·In-depth Four Questions about "Getting Rich Quickly" How many people have become rich quickly through this project that claims to be able to get rich quickly? Are the hundreds of farmers who grow Cordyceps militaris losing money or making money? Since it is possible to get rich quickly, are the employees within the Golden Grass Company planting it? Advertising has always claimed that the risk is low, so why do all the growers lose money? On July 4, Liu Zhen, a resident of Ejinkijie, a grower who felt something strange, walked into the reception room of this newspaper, weighing less than two kilograms of Cordyceps militaris before handing over the dried products. You know, he only grew 3,000 bottles, and the cost included technology transfer fee of 1,500 yuan, strain fee of 600 yuan, nutrition package of 190 yuan, and other costs of ordering 3,000 glass bottles, sterilization pots, etc., which exceeded 5,000 yuan. According to the contract, his product could only be sold for 500 yuan at best (Liu finally sold it for only 339 yuan). Liu, who frowned, said that he was doing pretty well, but Li Longhua, a local farmer from Shima who trained with him, was even worse, with almost no harvest. Later, reporters confirmed this at Li Longhua's place. Five people including Lai Tianjun, Chen Zhengli, Wang Dingcai, Sun Zujian and Sun Zuneng from the Bishan Gangfeng Furniture Factory experienced the same thing: Lai and Chen bought 2,500 bottles of various kinds, Chen was slightly better, selling more than 1,600 yuan, and Lai only sold 700 bottles. Yuan or so, others suffered even worse losses. Chen Zhengli, who has planted it twice, has now lost more than 7,000 yuan, and Lai Tianjun is not much less: nearly 6,000 yuan. Chen Zhengli said that four other households in Qingbang, the same county as theirs, cultivated Cordyceps militaris and suffered huge losses. Even Wang Hongtai from Jiangjin, the model provided by Chongqing Jincao to reporters, complained: I have planted it twice, and I have lost four to five thousand yuan. If the company had not recycled more than 1,000 yuan of fresh products for sample promotion, , the loss may be even worse. The growers were filled with indignation: All our hard-earned money has been swallowed up by Cordyceps militaris. This is a complete scam.

It has always been necessary to recycle hay. Why is it now being introduced to the market? On the afternoon of July 6, when reporters accompanied Liu Zhen to hand over dried hay for the second time (on the 4th, Chongqing Golden Grass claimed that Liu’s hay was too watery and refused to harvest it), Wang Yuanqing revealed to reporters that the company’s technology transfer for growing Cordyceps militaris The fees have ranged from 2,400 yuan last year to 1,800 yuan, 1,500 yuan, 1,200 yuan, all the way up to the current 800 yuan. What makes Liu Zhen most desperate is that Wang said that after June 25, the hay grown by new students will no longer be recycled, and the dry products grown by old students will no longer be recycled after the signed contract expires. According to Wang, the company will gradually wean the growers and bring them to the market. Since the contracts signed by most students will expire on September 30 this year, in other words, after that, the cordyceps planted will be left to the market to find a market by themselves. If it doesn't work, it will be a dead end. As for how much is invested and how much is recovered, it has to do with Golden Grass Company has nothing to do with it. Interestingly, according to the contract, the moisture content of the dry product is measured with a moisture detector, but there is no moisture detector at Chongqing Jincao Company. If you want to test, you need to pay the testing fee, otherwise the final decision will be made by the person who receives the dried product after visual inspection. Someone asked for the successful person’s phone number. Why didn’t the company disclose it? Another thing that puzzled the reporter and Liu Zhen: On the 6th, the reporter wanted to ask Wang Yuanqing for the phone numbers of some successful growers. Wang said that the information had been sent to the head office, and the growers did not leave their phone numbers. In addition, the person who specifically manages the information No one is here, so there is really nothing we can do. However, Wang and several other employees of Chongqing Jincao repeatedly emphasized that an old farmer in Qianjiang made thousands of yuan by growing 500 bottles that day. However, when Chongqing Jincao's finance department issued a receipt of 339 yuan to Liu Zhen, the reporter discovered that a man named Wan Shuli in Qianjiang did hand over the hay that day, but he only sold it for 1,514.8 yuan. With various costs, Wan was also Serious losses. In this receipt, the reporter found that most of the income from handing over was less than 1,000 yuan, and none of them exceeded 3,000 yuan! Since it is possible to get rich quickly and quickly, why don’t internal employees cultivate it? Growers are wondering: Since growing Cordyceps militaris is so profitable, why don’t these employees do it? Are the people responsible for training technically qualified? Are the strains they sell qualified? Faced with a series of questions, reporters repeatedly tried to find Jin Dongri, the legal representative of Chongqing Golden Grass, to give an explanation, but Wang Yuanqing and others said Jin was not available. But regarding several other issues, Wang said that employees did not plant crops because the company wanted to avoid risks. The reporter discovered that Chongqing Jincao’s technical information was actually handwritten and sold for 10 yuan per copy, and could only be sold to students. The fact that the growers are not planting well is not a problem with the strains and technology itself. Several employees who stayed behind at Chongqing Jincao categorically said that it is the growers themselves who have not mastered the key to the technology. Investigation and statement: The Science and Education Department of our Municipal Agricultural Bureau does not know what Cordyceps militaris is. In the Vegetable Department, Economic Crops Department and Science and Education Department of the Municipal Agriculture Bureau, relevant comrades all said that they did not know what Cordyceps militaris was, let alone evaluate its economic importance. It’s valuable. Ou and Ju, the market contract supervision section chiefs of the Yuzhong District Industrial and Commercial Bureau, said that the contract signed by Chongqing Jincao was suspected of violating the principles of fairness, justice and voluntariness. (According to the grower Liu Zhen, he never saw the contract before the training, which stipulated that Chongqing Golden Grass had no responsibilities according to the contract. It was not until the time of purchasing the seeds that the other party took it out, but the technology transfer fee had been paid at that time. Isn’t it a waste of money to buy it for 1,500 yuan?) Director Zhang of Daping Industrial and Commercial Office also said that the advertisement posted by Chongqing Jincao is misleading. Zhang revealed that as early as 10 pm on March 25 last year, the Economic Investigation Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Economic Inspection Team of the Municipal Industry and Commerce Bureau, Daping Industrial and Commercial Office and other departments conducted a joint investigation after receiving the report. This statement was confirmed by relevant personnel from the Economic Inspection Corps of the Municipal Industry and Commerce Bureau. Investigate and Solve Mysteries The Jincao Company exaggerated its publicity as an appraisal unit of Cordyceps militaris artificial cultivation technical achievements. Ms. Shi from the Achievements Department of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology confirmed to reporters yesterday that the Jincao Company’s propaganda was exaggerated. The company is actually a very small private enterprise, although it has 8 golden grass companies in Jinan, Shenyang, Nanjing and other places. They have also received many questioning calls from growers inside and outside the province, all of which are nonsense. As for Jincao Company's use of the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department brand to promote its products, Ms. Shi said that the Science and Technology Department had called the company several times since last year, but it had no effect. Mr. Luo of the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who has cooperated with Jincao Company for some time, also said yesterday that although the technology is mature, the market is far from mature, and the indicators stipulated in the contract are too high, and it is impossible for growers to achieve it. Requirements, that is to say, recycling is a loss, not recycling is an even bigger loss. Investigation·Link Cordyceps militaris scam has been discovered in Nanjing. This is not the first time that Cordyceps militaris has become a money-making tool for some people. Starting from March 2002, a Nanjing bioengineering company called Golden Fire Bird advertised on local radio stations, evening newspapers and other media for three consecutive months, claiming that they had successfully developed artificial intelligence that could be called the "gold industry of the 21st century." The project to cultivate Cordyceps militaris is aimed at developing growers in society. It not only includes technical training, but also fully recycles the finished products. It is an "ideal scientific and technological project for laid-off workers, retirees and farmers to get rich." The attractive advertisement caused hundreds of people to spend thousands of dollars in "technical transaction fees" and strain fees. As a result, problems continued to arise after planting, and finally ended in failure. On July 18, "Golden Firebird" suddenly disappeared, and the police defrauded the growers of more than 3 million yuan.