Category Section
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Mushroom Cultivation Training
The Mushroom Research Laboratory at ICAR-IIHR, Bangalore, offers training to entrepreneurs to help them gain practical knowledge and skills in mushroom spawn production, enabling them to successfully scale up mushroom farming.
Mushroom spawn production
Mushroom cultivation
Types of Mushroom
Shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes):
World’s No 1 variety, occupies 22% of global production, excellent edible and medicinal mushroom.
Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus spp.):
World No 2 occupies 19% of global production. It can be pink, yellow, gray, brown, blue, black or white. Culinary medicinal mushroom well-suited to Indian conditions.
Wood ear mushroom (Auricularia Polytricha):
At No 3 position occupies 18% of global production. Extremely popular in North east India.
Button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus):
With 15% of global production this mushroom is at No 4 position. Extremely popular in Europe and highly industrialized.
Enoki or winter mushroom (Flammulina velutipes):
Occupying 11% of global production, this one of the most sought after temperate (10-12 OC) mushrooms in Japan
Paddy Straw mushroom (Volvariella volvaceae):
5% global production, grown mainly in China, popular in Odisha state in India.
Milky mushroom (Calocybe indica):
