According to Daniel Winkler, the price of Cordyceps sinensis has risen dramatically on the Tibetan Plateau, basically 900% between 1998 and 2008, an annual average of over 20%. However, the value of big-sized caterpillar fungus has increased more dramatically than smaller size Cordyceps, regarded as lower quality.
| Year | % Price increase | Price/kg (Yuan) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 1,800 | |||||
| 1997 | 467% (incl. inflation) | 8,400 | ||||
| 2004 | 429% (incl. inflation) | 36,000 | ||||
| 2005 | 10,000–60,000 |
According to Modern Marvels, a show on the History Channel, mushroom hunters in Nepal can earn 900 dollars for an ounce of cordyceps.
The high value of cordyceps was evidently the reason it was one of only two Chinese traditional medicines to be stolen in a brazen theft in British Columbia. The stolen cordyceps has been estimated to have been worth Can $38,000.
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