Expert Advisory Details

Experts' advice for mushroom farming

Make arrangement for the procurement of wheat straw to be used for button mushroom cultivation starting in September. Book seed for paddy straw mushroom and milky mushroom in the first half of April for its use in growing these mushrooms. Start cultivation of paddy straw mushroom from mid April onwards. For this purpose, use 1-1½ kg paddy straw bundles after wetting to lay the paddy straw bed as per recommended technology. Spray water on the beds twice daily. Mushrooms start appearing by 10-12th day and continues for three weeks. Milky mushroom cultivation using boiled wheat straw (2 kg/bag) as per recommend technology to be started in this month. Bags will be ready for casing after 17-20 days.