A STUDY ON MARKETING OF MUSHROOM IN HARDOI DISTRICT OF UTTAR PRADESH
Keywords:
India’s biodiversity, oyster mushrooms, mushroom cultivation.Abstract
India’s biodiversity coupled with its vast resources including competitive workforce, highly
intelligent scientific and rich business community make our country the best choice for growing
vegetable crops like mushroom for world market. The field of mushroom crops is assuming
importance because of growing demand for mushroom throughout the world. India is not a major
producer of any particular variety of the mushroom, but it does cultivate mushrooms and has great
potential as an important producer in the future. From a production standpoint, the white button
mushroom has the highest growth rate and potential for production. However, the cultivation of oyster
mushrooms has been more common since the end of the last century, when the infrastructure of oyster
mushroom was much improved, therefore capital requirements went down as compared to
requirements for white button mushroom cultivation.
