Mushroom Culture

Mushroom Production Project (Contd..)

B. Mushroom Production Project

Economics of Milky mushroom production ( 5 kg /day /300 days )

S.No	Item	Quantity	Rate (Rs.)	Total (Rs.)
A.	Capital Investment
1.	Mushroom growing room ( poly houses )	1	12,000	12,000
2.	Chaff cutter (leaver type)	1	400	400
3.	Boiler ( one for paddy straw& one for casing soil sterilization )	1	2,000	2,000
4.	Cement tub	1	1,000	1,000
5.	Sprayer	1	500	500
6.	Biomass stove	1	300	300
	Total			19,800
B.	Fixed Cost
1.	Interest on A @ 12%			2,376
2.	Depreciation ( Item 1 @ 10% )			1,200
3.	Depreciation ( Item 2,3,4,5 & 6 @ 10 % )			780
	Total			4,356
C.	Recurring Cost
1.	Paddy straw	1.5t	1,500/t	2,250
2.	Spawn bags	1,200	12	14,400
3.	Polythene bags for bed & packing	35kg	80	2,800
4.	Fungicides, fumigants & chemicals	-	-	1,000
5.	Labour @ 1 per day	300	50/head	15,000
6.	Others	-	-	5,000
	Total			40,450

Cost of production / year

1. Working expenditure : 40,450
2. Interest and depreciation on fixed cost : 4,356
3. Total cost : 44,806

Income
1. By sale of 5 kg of mushrooms daily @ Rs. 65 per kg : 97,500
2. Cost of spent mushroom compost : 10,000
3. Total income : 1,07,500
4. Net income per year : 62,694