Why Do Mushroom farming in India?

 Mushrooms have a unique identity in the field of farming. You can also employ mushrooms as your secondary income. Mushroom farming in India  can gain high profit with less investment in India. The best thing about mushroom farming is that it can be grown in less space and can be cultivated in just 3 weeks depending on the variety of mushroom. The Indian market has a good price for mushrooms where you can generate a good income while investing less time.

How to start mushroom farming? 

• First of all, you need to have a space where you need to have shelter in an open area.

• The shelter should be properly covered with darkness and there should be no space on the roof so other microorganisms should not enter and disturb your cropping.

• You need to have a trade licence, GST registration and FSSAI registration and licence.

Mushroom farming training 

• Mushroom farming training has a time period of 30 days for a fresher and for experienced 7-8 days. Because when you will know about the right time for cultivation of mushrooms.

• You will be able to gain more profit and can also get opportunities to export mushrooms out of India where you can get high profit.

• Training costs about 25-30k with certification.

• In training a person is properly guided for making good manure and the right location to put the seed.

Will also guide you in space and harvesting techniques including harvesting tools proper use.

Mushrooms can be grown for personal consumption, if yes how much it costs ?

Yes, mushrooms can be grown on a small scale for personal consumption and for sale once you have proper knowledge of growing, harvesting and the temperature where mushrooms can grow with high nutrients.                                             

          Can I Get a Loan on Mushroom Farm?

• Of Course, you can get a loan on a mushroom farm for about 50% of the investment the government can provide. 

• Like if your project costs about 20 lakh then you can get about 10 lakh of subsidy on your project. 

• If you want to apply for the subsidy here is the website where you can apply for this - https://nhb.gov.in 

Compost For Mushroom Cultivation 

• You need to prepare a good and highly nutrient compost which will provide a good size to your mushroom. 

• If it  is good in quality then you can also sell it at a good market price.

•  Quality depends on temperature. 

• It should always be kept from about 47 degrees Celsius to 53 degrees Celsius which will hold it for a better time.

• These are of two types : natural compost and synthetic compost.   

  

Natural compost      

• It is  totally prepared by nature.

• It is prepared with different kinds of dung like buffalo dung and cow dung.

•  you can just add some kgs of gypsum and chicken manure in that to make it more fertilised. 

• You need to make a spray of coco peat every 10 days.

•  It takes about a time period of 55 days to get ready properly.        

    

Synthetic compost  

• Synthetic compost can be prepared more quickly as compared to natural one.

•  In this, you need to make a mixture of wheat straw, urea, gypsum, nitrate sulphate and other ingredients.

•  It will be ready in just 15 to 18 days.

•  This should be prepared in sunlight only.

•  it should not be kept in sunlight and in a high-temperature room where the temperature must not be less than 45 degrees Celsius then you can pack it polythene.

•  it's ready to produce mushrooms.

               

Filling The Compost In Trays 

Add your compost to your seed tray then make it flat as the size of the tray. Then put the seeds in the tray as per the columns in the tray and put one seed in a single column. When you are going to fill the tray, remember that the temperature must be below 10 degrees Celsius. When you are going to put the seeds you must remember to make the seeds wet in liquid hydrogen. And then you will see that your seeds will take good growth in just 13-15 days