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We have been growing White Buttons for 15 years now, We have a 1000 kgs per day (370 TPA) farm near Mumbai, if its white buttons you want, please contact me.

You are welcome to visit my farm near Mumbai, we grow 1000 kgs per day of white button mushrooms (Agaricus Bisporus). You'll have to send me your details though as i'm not a paid member.

> We have rainfall about 20inches annually. > I want to know that this place is suitable for mushroom farming. > No barrier of investment. > how much land required for that. > whats the profit? > whats the time limit? > and whats the procedure to start the business? > please sugguest...

Go for a Ton a day to get a reasonable Economy of scale... About 3 cr should be enough for a 16 room two tunnel design.

Several I'll name a few. 1: White Button Mushrooms 2: Oyster Mushrooms (Several Types) 3: Shiitake 4: Paddy Straw Mushroom 5: Black Ear Mushrooms (several Types) 6: Enoki 7: Morels 8: Truffles 10: Porcini or Ceps 11:Portabella and probably a couple of thousand lesser known species.

Which mushrooms do you want to farm? White Button/Oysters/Others

Minimum scale required is about 1000 kgs per day, wont be feasible under that.. Best way would be to get an experienced farmer to guide you...

1. I'll try to answer for White Button Mushrooms, Others can tell you about alternate vareities 2. Markets for fresh produce is mainly in the big cities. You can export canned mushrooms. 3. Basic knowledge of Mushroom Growing required, attend a course at NRCM, Solan. 4. I'll club Infrastructure...

Which mushrooms do you have in mind? Your question is as general as saying you are interested in growing fruits...

Fertilizer for mushrooms We use poultry manure... and a little urea to soften straw. (for white buttons)

Paddy straw near bombay is 2300 per ton and wheat straw is 3200 per ton.. We use sugarcane bagasse at 3200 per ton at our farm for buttons. As for bagging compost, about 15 people should be able to bag 10,000 kgs per day. again these are white button mushroom figures

Cocopeat as substrate.. Coco peat can only be used as casing soil and not substrate for mushrooms requiring casing soil like buttons and milkys... It has no nutritional value and great water holdong capacity, two important chatacteristics for casing.

My two bits based on western india (Gujarat / Maharashtra/Goa) Oyster - Keeping quality does not matter as they can be dried. But no demand at all. you can get dry chinese oyster mushrooms cheaper than growing them here. Milky- I assume you are talking about Calocybe indica - we call them false...

if you're only 40 kms from Banglore your land prices will not justify crops/orchards etc. go for capital intensive farming like greenhouses/mushrooms/hydroponics/tissue culture labs/dairy. My experience is that with your land worth you will earn more in a fixed deposit than in traditional...

Dont go to Govt training centers.. they know very little.. go to the nearest farm and spend a week with the owners.