In the vats, culture media serve as stand-ins for moth larvae. For every ton in the ITRI vats as many as 20,000 C. sinensis sporocarps can be produced in a day. And Taiwan Sugar already has orders for more than two tons of the fungal powder, which comes to roughly NT $ 10 million.
工研院的每噸槽體每天平均的產量相當於兩萬隻的冬蟲夏草；而台糖企業的蟲草粉訂單已經積欠了兩噸，相當於一億元左右的產量。