Abstract:
Mushroom cultivation is a potential biotechnological process wherein the waste plant materials or negative
value crop residues can be converted into valuable food. Mushroom cultivation is recognized as an ecofriendly
alternative for agro-waste recycling with tremendous capabilities to provide better nutrition for the vast
vegetarian population, employment generation and a good income source. The AlCRP on Mushroom since its
inception at IGKV, Raipur in the year 1989 had been instrumental in bringing out superior strains of paddy
straw mushroom, milky mushroom and oyster mushroom. At present, four mushroom varieties namely,
Volvariella spp, Calocybe indica, Pleurotus spp. and Agaricus bisporus have been recommended for round the
year cultivation in the country. Chhattisgarh is an ecological hub of many natural wild edible species of
macro-fungi which has been extensively surveyed, documented, characterized and preserved as dry and wet
specimens from different agro-ecological zones. Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwadalaya has been instrumental in
promoting mushrooms as food and livelihood enterprise for more than two decades especially tropical
mushrooms for which a substantial policy level intervention is required in regulating the marketing, pricing
and food label claims.
Description:
Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini
