Mushroom Cultivation Method

Mushroom Cultivation

Mushroom Cultivation

Mushrooms are a nutritious vegetable. Usually mushrooms do not grow in the soil like vegetables. It is a lower class fungal parasitic plant. In order to sustain life, they receive essential nutrients from organic matter. Mushroom cultivation started experimentally in this country in the early eighties. At that time a mushroom spawn production was set up in two culture centers under the Department of Agricultural Extension at Savar. At the initiative of the center, the cultivation of mushrooms was started by the head of technical assistance in supplying spawn to the nearby farmers and producing mushrooms. Currently, there is more detailed work on mushroom production activities under the Mushroom Center Development Project in Savar.

Nutritious

1. Mushrooms are incomparable as food. From ancient times the food is considered to be nutritious, delicious and expensive.
2. Mushrooms are a vegetable rich in protein. That is why it is also called vegetable meat. 20-30 grams of protein per 100 grams (dried mushrooms).
3. Mushrooms contain vitamin C, B complex, potassium, sodium, phosphorus and low amounts of calcium and iron. Mushrooms help maintain hemoglobin levels in the blood as they are readily available despite their low iron content.
4. Mushrooms are a very low calorie food It has no cholesterol, is very low in fat (2-6%) but contains linoleic acid, a fatty acid needed by the body.
5. Mushrooms contain moderate amounts of carbohydrates and enough fiber (8-10%). It does not contain starch. Mushrooms are an ideal food for diabetics due to their low sugar content.
6. Mushrooms are also very beneficial for heart patients as they are low in fat, cholesterol free and rich in linoleum acid.

Mushroom Cultivation

Medicinal properties and various uses of mushrooms

1. The use of mushrooms in various diseases is well known. Mushrooms are used to treat arthritis, pain, jaundice, worms and blood clots.
2. Mushrooms lower blood pressure and work against tumor cells.
3. Regular mushrooms increase physical and mental strength. Increases blood circulation and eliminates colds, coughs.
4. Mushrooms are beneficial for patients with high blood pressure and diabetes.
5. Having enough fiber in mushrooms helps to keep the body slim.
6. Mushrooms relieve constipation. Mushrooms are a simple and very important food for patients as the digestibility of protein is 70-80 percent.
7. Color bottle cork. Mushrooms are also used as photo frames and vases.

Mushroom varieties

There are several thousand varieties of mushrooms in nature, of which 8-10 varieties are commercially cultivated. The temperature and relative humidity of Bangladesh is very suitable for mushroom cultivation. Cultivated mushroom varieties in Bangladesh are-

1. Oyster mushroom
2. Milk mushrooms
3. Wood ear mushroom
4. Button mushroom
5. Heat tolerate button mushroom
6. Shitake mushroom
7. Paddy straw mushroom

Cultivation method (Oyster Mushroom)

Commercial oyster mushroom cultivation is more prevalent in Bangladesh at present. Farmers are provided PP bags ready for production with spawn filling substrate. Farmers produce crops from these supplied bags. Produced inside these bags weighing about 500 grams-

1. Wood powder = 84%
2. Wheat bran = 32%
3. Rice bran = 4%

A small amount of lime and water is added to the mixture. The packets should be arranged in rows of wood and bamboo in the bamboo fence with straw cultivation and paved floor.

Then you have to cut off the cut part of the crescent on both sides of the bag.

After washing, the bag should be soaked in clean water for 21-30 minutes.

The bag should then be turned over on a clean floor or wire mesh for half an hour to allow excess water to drain inside.

The bags should be placed in a row on a wooden back or bamboo platform in the farm.

If the outside temperature is low, cover the bag with polythene and keep it for 2/3 days to increase the temperature inside the bag. At this time the humidity is 80% and the temperature is 25-30‎°C. It needs to happen. With ideas-

Water should be sprayed regularly in the bags.

If polythene is called 3/4 times 10-15 m. Time to remove the call and arrange for ventilation.

After 2/3 days, a white pin-like part can be seen with the cut part of the bag. If the mushrooms are big after 2/3 days, they should be collected.

If you spray water from the other side in the same way , new mushrooms will be produced.

A mushroom bag can be harvested 3/4 times.

Suppression of insects and diseases

Outbreaks of flies can occur in mushrooms. Malathion (0.1%) can be sprayed for this purpose . In addition, soaking cotton in formaldehyde (4%) and rubbing it on sunstroke will remove greenish brown or blue mold.

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