rajaganesh
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How to grow mushroom in home. I want to do Mushroom business
How to grow mushroom in home. I want to do Mushroom business
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Mushroom
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Hello Sir
Mushrooms are not only easy to grow, they are also a year round delicacy and markets are plentiful. Private households, hotels, shops, restaurants,market stallholders, and others, are all potential clients.
Small scale operations need only a garden shed to make for a viable business; mushroom farms on the other hand require extra space and a more organised and systematic approach.
Growing mushrooms is very different from growing plants, flowers and vegetables, mainly because they do not contain chlorophyll, and instead they depend on other plant material - called ‘the substrate’ - for food.
Most popular species of mushroom, from a money making point of view, are the oyster and the shrimp, shiitake, and many other very common and more unusual types. Generally the various species of mushroom, of which there are many, have their own preferred growing medium and will respond better in some environments and temperatures than others.
There’s not a great deal to know about growing mushrooms, and it’s not an exact science, but there are rules and procedures to apply if you want to grow quality stock and maximise your profits.
Matters to concern you before starting your business include health and legal matters, pest control, market potential for specific species of mushroom, suppliers of basic cultivation and growing materials.
Most important of all, however, it’s very important to point out that some mushrooms are not for eating, they are poisonous, and you must learn all about mushrooms and the health and legal aspects of growing them for sale before embarking on this idea.
You’ll find plenty of useful information about the health and legal aspects information from the Mushroom Growers’ Association featured later.
Main Stages of Mushroom Production
These are the essential steps in growing mushrooms for profit:
1) Learn about mushrooms and the different species, also how those species are used in food and health preparations. Study the difference between cultivation methods for different species, and search on and off the Internet for potential clients for the various species.
2) Choose a specialty. Decide what species to grow, and preferably choose according to whatever capital you already have and equipment you can obtain at a premium while you establish your business.
3) Identify and comply with local and more distant legal obligations. Various rules and regulations surround the growth and marketing of most forms of plant life.
4) Decide where to grow your mushrooms and establish a suitable working environment. Your chosen location should be clean and dry, and have the correct temperature for storing your basic ingredients under cover and free from rain and sunlight.
5) Choose a suitable growing medium or ‘substrate’ for your chosen mushroom species. Straw and dirt are commonly used. You’ll also need mushroom spawn to lay on the medium. Your spawn can be self-grown once the cultures start to develop. You’ll also need cultivation beds on which to grow your mushrooms. Beds can comprise logs with cut out cavities for mushrooms, sometimes sawdust and simple wooden boxes will suffice.
6) Find a supplier for beds, medium and spores (spawn)
7) Prepare and sterilise the medium.
8) Lay spawn - spores - on the beds. Spores are mature mushrooms grown on a sterile medium.
9) Establish and maintain the correct temperature, moisture, humidity and other essential conditions for optimum mushroom cultivation.
10) Pick, pack and market your mushrooms.
11) Clear the beds and start all over again.
The mushroom season, from preparing beds to harvesting the stock, lasts from between six and eight weeks, and rotating seasons means you will always have mature stock to market.
Mushroom spore, grown on an appropriate medium in trays or boxes, must be maintained at a temperature of between 10 and 13 degrees C. The trays should be placed in a dim but well ventilated spot - an empty cellar or spare room is ideal.
Mushrooms should be sold, and preferably used, almost straight after picking.
If you have to store them, keep them in a cool dark place.
Mushrooms are not only easy to grow, they are also a year round delicacy and markets are plentiful. Private households, hotels, shops, restaurants,market stallholders, and others, are all potential clients.
Small scale operations need only a garden shed to make for a viable business; mushroom farms on the other hand require extra space and a more organised and systematic approach.
Growing mushrooms is very different from growing plants, flowers and vegetables, mainly because they do not contain chlorophyll, and instead they depend on other plant material - called ‘the substrate’ - for food.
Most popular species of mushroom, from a money making point of view, are the oyster and the shrimp, shiitake, and many other very common and more unusual types. Generally the various species of mushroom, of which there are many, have their own preferred growing medium and will respond better in some environments and temperatures than others.
There’s not a great deal to know about growing mushrooms, and it’s not an exact science, but there are rules and procedures to apply if you want to grow quality stock and maximise your profits.
Matters to concern you before starting your business include health and legal matters, pest control, market potential for specific species of mushroom, suppliers of basic cultivation and growing materials.
Most important of all, however, it’s very important to point out that some mushrooms are not for eating, they are poisonous, and you must learn all about mushrooms and the health and legal aspects of growing them for sale before embarking on this idea.
You’ll find plenty of useful information about the health and legal aspects information from the Mushroom Growers’ Association featured later.
Main Stages of Mushroom Production
These are the essential steps in growing mushrooms for profit:
1) Learn about mushrooms and the different species, also how those species are used in food and health preparations. Study the difference between cultivation methods for different species, and search on and off the Internet for potential clients for the various species.
2) Choose a specialty. Decide what species to grow, and preferably choose according to whatever capital you already have and equipment you can obtain at a premium while you establish your business.
3) Identify and comply with local and more distant legal obligations. Various rules and regulations surround the growth and marketing of most forms of plant life.
4) Decide where to grow your mushrooms and establish a suitable working environment. Your chosen location should be clean and dry, and have the correct temperature for storing your basic ingredients under cover and free from rain and sunlight.
5) Choose a suitable growing medium or ‘substrate’ for your chosen mushroom species. Straw and dirt are commonly used. You’ll also need mushroom spawn to lay on the medium. Your spawn can be self-grown once the cultures start to develop. You’ll also need cultivation beds on which to grow your mushrooms. Beds can comprise logs with cut out cavities for mushrooms, sometimes sawdust and simple wooden boxes will suffice.
6) Find a supplier for beds, medium and spores (spawn)
7) Prepare and sterilise the medium.
8) Lay spawn - spores - on the beds. Spores are mature mushrooms grown on a sterile medium.
9) Establish and maintain the correct temperature, moisture, humidity and other essential conditions for optimum mushroom cultivation.
10) Pick, pack and market your mushrooms.
11) Clear the beds and start all over again.
The mushroom season, from preparing beds to harvesting the stock, lasts from between six and eight weeks, and rotating seasons means you will always have mature stock to market.
Mushroom spore, grown on an appropriate medium in trays or boxes, must be maintained at a temperature of between 10 and 13 degrees C. The trays should be placed in a dim but well ventilated spot - an empty cellar or spare room is ideal.
Mushrooms should be sold, and preferably used, almost straight after picking.
If you have to store them, keep them in a cool dark place.