aDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004, Haryana
bDepartment of Social Sciences, Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, Himachal Pradesh
Online published on 5 December, 2018.
Mushroom production is one of the few large-scale commercial applications of microbial technology for bioconversion of agricultural and forestry waste materials to valuable foods. Cultivation of mushroom on various agricultural residues offers economic initiatives for agribusiness to examine these residues as valuable resources and use them to produce protein rich mushroom products. Many factors may be involved in the difference of nutritional composition of mushrooms cultivated in different substrates. Growing mushrooms gives so much satisfaction and produces so much food and income that further use of this practice can result in a complete contentment of families. Mushroom cultivation offers an added advantage to recycle agro-waste as carbon pool into good quality protein, much of which otherwise is wasted in the field. This hi-tech horticulture venture has a promising scope to meet the food shortages without undue pressure on land.
