MUSHROOM PRODUCTION

                       
                                            Mushroom production
         
               Mushroom production is very helpful to the farmers for earning money.In that, the cost of inputs will be less.So the farmers are very interest to the cultivation of mushroom.In mushroom , different types is there,

•  Paddy mushroom,
•  Button mushroom,
•  Milky mushroom,
•  Pleurotus mushroom.

  Procedure for mushroom cultivation :

 

            First prepare the medium for the cultivation of mushroom.Required materials for medium preparation is,Potato 250g, 40g Agar ,40g Glucose and 250ml Conical flask, Beaker,Glass rod,Test tube and Non absorbed type of cotton.

          Chopped the potato into small pieces after removing of skin.After that boil the potato with water  in beaker. Boil it in agar in water in another beaker.Potato should half boiled. then pour both in other beaker.

Add 40g of glucose to the beaker and stir it well.Transfer this to conical flask to half portion after few minutes , it becomes clod.Then plug it with non absorbed cotton. Sterilize the conical flask containing PDA in an autoclave which transfer in Liquid medium.

         Transfer the liquid medium into different test tubes with a standing position under laminar air flow chamber. Solidify takes place inside the test tube.Take any type of mushroom and split of 2 halves.Pick small pieces /bits from the stem of head portion.

       After 2 weeks,it grows in to a mycelium which is called base spawn.After that prepare the mother spawn ,in mother spawn preparation, sorghum/ chaffy paddy is half boiled and add calcium carbonate 40g.This is packed in polythene bag.Sterilize it in autoclave.Inoculate base spawn of transfer into sorghum boiled medium.This is placed for 2 weeks.It is done for multiplying the spawn collection. mother spawn has high virulent. after that the bed spawn will be prepared from the mother spawn.after that the cultivation of mushroom will be conduct in the field.