Mushroom Processing In Chenango?
Published: January 17th, 2014
By: Shawn Magrath

PLYMOUTH – Plans are in the works to bring a new mushroom enterprise to the area that could potentially make Chenango County a key player in the high end mushroom market.

The Chenango County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution on Monday in support of establishing a mushroom production and processing facility in the Town of Plymouth. The proposed project will be spearheaded by a Chinese national, Li Yiran, who currently heads similar mushroom processing operations in China and exports mushrooms to the food industry in South Korea, and hopes to expand his business to a location within the United States.

Li’s wish to conduct business in the U.S. is also driven by an interest to obtain a permanent Visa, explained Planning and Community Development Specialist Todd Dreyer. The Immigrant Investor Program, also known as the “EB-5,” is administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to foreign investors in effort to promote economic growth and job creation within the United States.

Terms of the EB-5 program specify that Li invest in a new commercial enterprise to be eligible. The program also stipulates that he create or preserve at least 10 full-time jobs for qualifying U.S. workers within two years of his admission to the United States as a conditional permanent resident.

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