To commercial mushroom farming, required heavy expenditure on the building infrastructure, purchase of machinery and equipment, raw materials, labor, and energy. The seasonal button mushroom growers are restricted to temperate regions like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, and Kashmir, hilly areas of Uttar Pradesh, hilly areas in Tamil Nadu and North Eastern areas where farmers take 2-3 plants of button mushrooms at a year Mostly both develop white button mushroom to your domestic market and export. While commercial mushroom framer who takes production continue entire year in large scale. There are two types of mushroom growers in India, seasonal farmers produce in small scale. In India, a marginal farmer and small manufacturing units produce Fifty percent of mushroom and the remaining mushroom produce by industrial institutions. Mushrooms contain more protein than fruits & vegetable and, Mushrooms can also be low in cholesterol.Īpart from their protein content, mushrooms can also be high in certain vitamins like B, C, vitamin D, riboflavin, thiamine nicotinic acid.Īlso an excellent source of iron, Potassium, and potassium along with folic acid, a component known for improving the blood and avoidance deficiencies.
Factors affecting the yield of the crop both in terms of quality and quantity are incidence of pests/pathogens and non-availability of pure quality of spawn. The growers can take on average 3-4 crops of white button mushrooms in a year depending upon the type and varieties cultivated. However, with the advent of modern cultivation technology it is now possible to cultivate this mushroom anywhere in India. Seasonally, it is grown during the winter months in the north-west plains of India and for 8-10 months in a year on the hills. Besides that it requires relative humidity of 80-90% and enough ventilation during cropping. White button mushroom requires 20-280 C for vegetative growth (spawn run) and 12-180 C for reproductive growth. In India, button mushrooms are grown seasonally and in environment controlled cropping houses.
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