Mushroom Culture

Practical - 6

Aim of the Practical:

• Students will learn different activities involved in button mushroom cultivation such as filling up of compost, spawning, preparation of casing material and its application, crop management practices like maintenance of temperature, humidity, aeration etc and how to harvest the produce.
  
• After the compost is prepared either by long method or pasteurizationmethod of composting, these are filled in polythene bags or trays, spawned, incubated for spawn run and when it is completed , casing is done and kept in the cropping room under required environmental conditions as detailed below for getting mushrooms and higher yield.