GUWAHATI, June 23 – In a bid to make mushroom cultivation more profitable for the farmers, the Mushroom Development Foundation along with the State Horticulture Department has decided to provide them with seeds and training to grow milky mushroom.
Cultivation of milky mushroom is ideal as well as profitable in summer as it grows up in a temperature of 30 to 40 degree centigrade.
“We are looking forward to make mushroom a year-long sustainable crop for the farmers, so that they do not have to sit idle in the summer season, as other varieties of mushroom do not grow adequately in high temperature,” said Pranjal Baruah, executive co-ordinator of Mushroom Development Foundation.
A workshop on cultivation of milky mushroom along with a speech competition on the topic ‘Need of Mushroom in Formation of Farmers Federation’ is being organised by Mushroom Development Foundation with Sonapur Anchalik Kathfulla Krishi Samity, funded by Horticulture Department, Government of Assam, under Horticulture Technology Mission.
Milky mushroom oozes out milk which acts as a defence mechanism against insects.
Total 2,000 packets of mushroom seeds would be distributed among the farmers of Sonapur area during the workshop to be organised at Trysem Hall, Block office Sonapur on June 24. At least 4,000 kg fresh mushrooms could be obtained from the seeds earning the farmers around Rs 40 per kg.
The hands-on training will be conducted in the respective village committees.
“We work with small farmers to raise their income by growing mushrooms at low cost and access market directly. In 50 village clusters of Sonapur we have organised 1000 small farmers into a three tier federation of which, 200 farmers have already started to grow mushrooms commercially. The federation is organised into 10 village committee and one central committee to control the collection and distribution system,” said Baruah.
Taking inspiration from the mushroom farmers of Tamilnadu, seeds of milky mushroom were developed in a State laboratory, to bring more sustainability in mushroom cultivation.
“The speech competition has been organised to instill confidence among the farmers to present their problems and achievements on a public forum. Farmers from ten village committees have enthusiastically registered their names for the contest,” he mentioned.
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Cultivation of milky mushroom is ideal as well as profitable in summer as it grows up in a temperature of 30 to 40 degree centigrade.
“We are looking forward to make mushroom a year-long sustainable crop for the farmers, so that they do not have to sit idle in the summer season, as other varieties of mushroom do not grow adequately in high temperature,” said Pranjal Baruah, executive co-ordinator of Mushroom Development Foundation.
A workshop on cultivation of milky mushroom along with a speech competition on the topic ‘Need of Mushroom in Formation of Farmers Federation’ is being organised by Mushroom Development Foundation with Sonapur Anchalik Kathfulla Krishi Samity, funded by Horticulture Department, Government of Assam, under Horticulture Technology Mission.
Milky mushroom oozes out milk which acts as a defence mechanism against insects.
Total 2,000 packets of mushroom seeds would be distributed among the farmers of Sonapur area during the workshop to be organised at Trysem Hall, Block office Sonapur on June 24. At least 4,000 kg fresh mushrooms could be obtained from the seeds earning the farmers around Rs 40 per kg.
The hands-on training will be conducted in the respective village committees.
“We work with small farmers to raise their income by growing mushrooms at low cost and access market directly. In 50 village clusters of Sonapur we have organised 1000 small farmers into a three tier federation of which, 200 farmers have already started to grow mushrooms commercially. The federation is organised into 10 village committee and one central committee to control the collection and distribution system,” said Baruah.
Taking inspiration from the mushroom farmers of Tamilnadu, seeds of milky mushroom were developed in a State laboratory, to bring more sustainability in mushroom cultivation.
“The speech competition has been organised to instill confidence among the farmers to present their problems and achievements on a public forum. Farmers from ten village committees have enthusiastically registered their names for the contest,” he mentioned.
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