Mushroom Farming amazing story

 

Mushroom Farming amazing story

In India, mushroom has been a non-traditional cash crop grown indoors, both as a seasonal crop and under the controlled environmental conditions. Button mushroom is cultivated in temperate regions of India. Oyster, milky, paddy straw mushroom is cultivated in the tropical and sub-tropical regions.

With an annual total of around 2100 kg, this amounts to roughly Rs 4.2 lakh per year in income. All this from a small 18 x 45-foot mushroom shed. Pragnesh is now planning to supply readymade mushrooms beds to farmers where they only need to water the beds and maintain the environment.

Starting a Mushroom Farming Business in 6 Easy Steps Growing Oyster Mushrooms

1

Get your spawn and substrate. You'll need a spawn to start the culture. ...

2

Prepare the substrate. First, chop the straw into short pieces. ...

3

Pack the plastic bags. ...

4

Incubation. ...

5

Fruiting. ...

6

Harvest.

While the net profit in mushroom farming in India is about Rs. 1,40,000. ... Commercial Mushroom Farming Profit Margins in India:

• Yield per 1 Square Foot. 10 Kg to 15 kg.
• Yield per 250 square foot. 2,500 kg.
• Cost of Button Mushroom per KG. Rs. 120.
• Cost of Button Mushroom for 2,500 kgs @ Rs. 120. Rs. 3,00,000.

How much does it cost to start a gourmet mushroom business? Since growing mushrooms does not require a lot of expensive equipment, especially if you start small, the startup costs can be quite affordable, as low as a few hundred dollars.

Mushrooms, found mainly in Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, reportedly cost up to Rs 45,000 per kg. There has been a constant increase in the varieties of mushrooms available, with button mushroom and oyster mushrooms being the most popular.

The yield progressively improved until he is now able to get yields as high as 700kg of oyster mushrooms every four months! With an annual total of around 2100 kg, this amounts to roughly Rs 4.2 lakh per year in income. All this from a small 18 x 45-foot mushroom shed.

Instead of seeds, mushrooms reproduce asexually through spores. ... Mycelium, or actively growing mushroom culture, is placed on a substrate—usually sterilized grains such as rye or millet—and induced to grow into those grains. This is called inoculations.