Journal of Microbial & Biochemical Technology

Department of Biotechnology, Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory, St. Thomas College, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India

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• Research   
  Production of Mushroom in Large Scale in the Chhattisgarh Region
  Author(s): Ujjwala Supe*
  
  The diversity of climatic condition in Chhattisgarh region and its vegetation made it a natural habitat for a number of mushrooms. Applications and market for mushrooms is growing rapidly in India because of their great nutrition values, subtle flavour and special taste. Many exotic food preparations like soup, vegetables, pickles etc. are made from them. They are also used for garnishing, to prepare many varieties of gravy and also as stuffing several food preparations. The average mushroom production in India (120,000 tonnes) remained considerably low compared to other countries and contributing only 3% of the total world production. At present only 0.03% of total agricultural residues are utilized for mushroom cultivation. If we utilize 1% of these residues for mushroom production, we can than achieve 30 million tons of mushrooms, which will be almost equivalen.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2157-7560.22.14.494

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