జర్నల్ ఆఫ్ మైక్రోబియల్ & బయోకెమికల్ టెక్నాలజీ

నైరూప్య

Production of Mushroom in Large Scale in the Chhattisgarh Region

Ujjwala Supe

The diversity of climatic condition in Chhattisgarh region and its vegetation made it a natural habitat for a number of mushrooms. Applications and market for mushrooms is growing rapidly in India because of their great nutrition values, subtle flavour and special taste. Many exotic food preparations like soup, vegetables, pickles etc. are made from them. They are also used for garnishing, to prepare many varieties of gravy and also as stuffing several food preparations. The average mushroom production in India (120,000 tonnes) remained considerably low compared to other countries and contributing only 3% of the total world production. At present only 0.03% of total agricultural residues are utilized for mushroom cultivation. If we utilize 1% of these residues for mushroom production, we can than achieve 30 million tons of mushrooms, which will be almost equivalent to current global production. Moreover, traditional methods are employed for the cultivation which is prone to many diseases and pests resulting in poor yields. Hence in this work, workers produce mushroom in the laboratory with whatever resources available to calculate the yield.