Expert Advisory Details

Advisory for Mushroom Cultivation

PAU Experts' Advisory for Mushroom cultivation:

1. Procure and store fresh wheat straw and well decomposed farm yard manure during the month of April for cultivating white button mushroom in the coming season of the year (October-March).

2. Paddy straw mushroom cultivation is carried out during the month of June on paddy straw bundles (about 1.5 kg each), wetted and spawned.

3. Paddy straw beds should be watered twice a day and harvesting of mushrooms to be continued for one month on daily basis. Discard the old beds once harvesting is done and make fresh beds for new crop.

4. Bags of milky mushroom spawned during April-May are to be cased with 1” layer of casing soil (disinfected farm yard manure).

5. Cropping of milky mushroom starts in bags after 15-17 days of casing.

6. Procure decomposed FYM for its use for white button mushroom cultivation (Oct.- March) and store it in the form of a loose pile about 2′ high.