Wufeng was also the first place in Taiwan where Western-style cultivated button mushrooms were grown commercially on a large scale, and in 1970 Taiwan became the world's largest exporter of button mushrooms, which earned the country close to US $ 100 million a year in foreign currency.
霧峰也是台灣洋菇栽培的起源地，至一九七○年，台灣便成為洋菇外銷的世界第一產區，每年賺進一億美元以上的外匯。