Three university students, including two girls, have moved to an isolated village in Anhui Province and concentrated their time and energies on cultivating mushrooms.

The three were inspired to create their own business as mushroom farmers last year when they underwent a month-long internship in the village. Last May they rented 0.4 hectares of fields to plant mushrooms with a 120,000-yuan (US$15,180) loan from the local government.

Currently the mushroom is in a harvest season, and the students predicted they could win back their investment within this year. Last month they worked with local mushroom farmers to set up an association with the ambition of expanding the industry to a grand scale.

Anhui Business News