Mushrom farming

[victorka]

Hello,

I am a farmer at Mayurbanj dist, Odisha (northern part).
Please give me information about setting a mushroom farm.
- Expenditure in setting a plant
- Labour management
- Govt subsidy
- Market in east India
- Breakeven point
- Profit

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Siddhartha.

 

[kirti s]

Hello sir,
To set up mushroom unit roughly 10 lakhs including infrastructure, Racks,Inputs like Paddy straw, Chalk powder , water heating boiler if you have infrastructure already you can limit exlpenditure 2 lakhs
#one or two labor can manage 100 to 200 S.Mt
# all state government under NHM provide subsidy of 25% and all nationalized banks provide loan
#as no organised market yet but you can pack your mushroom may be supplied to retail markets like Reliance,More and etc even to local market also.
break even with in 3yr

 

[victorka]

Dear Mr. Kirti,

Thanks a lot for the info.
Can you let me know the area required for the farming?

Regards,
Siddhartha.