Importance of Mushroom Cultivation Presentation By

Mr.Allah Dad Khan allahdad52@gmail.com

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Mushrooms, though classified as vegetables in the food world, are not technically plants. They belong to the fungi kingdom and although they are not vegetables, mushrooms provide several important nutrients.

Mushrooms

Edible mushrooms once called the “food of the gods” and still treated as a garnish or delicacy can be taken regularly as part of the human diet or be treated as healthy food or as functional food. The extractable products from medicinal mushrooms, designed to supplement the human diet not as regular food, but as the enhancement of health and fitness, can be classified into the category of dietary supplements/mushroom nutriceuticals

Edible Mushrooms

Mushroom Body i) Cap (pileus)- Colour

(white, grey, yellow) and shape (umbrella, kidney, cap) depend on species

ii) Stype (stem)- Stype is stem like structure that supports the pileus and transports nutrients from the substrate to other parts of mushroom.

iii) Gills -tissues that produce spores.

iv) Mycelia- absorbs nutrients from substrate

Mushroom cultivation can directly improve livelihoods through economic, nutritional and medicinal contributions.

Indirectly, mushroom cultivation also provides opportunities for improving the sustainability of small farming systems through the recycling of organic matter, which can be used as a growing substrate, and then returned to the land as fertilizer

Importance 1.As Livelihood( Income generation)

Mushroom cultivation can help reduce vulnerability to poverty and strengthens livelihoods through the generation of a fast yielding and nutritious source of food and a reliable source of income.

Small-scale growing does not include any significant capital investment: mushroom substrate can be prepared from any clean agricultural waste material, and mushrooms can be produced in temporary clean shelters.

Importance of Mushroom2. Vulnerability to poor

Mushroom cultivation activities can play an important role in supporting the local economy by contributing to subsistence food security, nutrition, and medicine; generating additional employment and income through local, regional and national trade; and offering opportunities for processing enterprises

Since it does not require access to land, mushroom cultivation is a viable and attractive activity for both rural farmers and peri-urban dwellers.

They can be cultivated on a part-time basis, and require little maintenance

Importance of Mushroom3.Viable Activity

Mushrooms both add flavour to bland staple foods and are a valuable food in their own right: they are often considered to provide a fair substitute for meat, with at least a comparable nutritional value to many vegetables

Importance of Mushroom4.Nutrition

Mushrooms are a good source of vitamin B, C and D, including niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, and folate, and various minerals including potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron and copper. They provide carbohydrates, but are low in fat and fibre, and contain no starch

Importance of Mushroom4.Nutrition

Furthermore, edible mushrooms are an excellent source of high quality protein (reportedly between 19 percent and 35 percent), and white button mushrooms contain more protein than kidney beans. In addition to all the essential amino acids, some mushrooms have medicinal benefits of certain polysaccharides, which are known to boost the immune system

Importance of Mushroom4.Nutrition

Medicinal fungi have routinely been used in traditional Chinese medicine. Today, an estimated six percent of edible mushrooms are known to have medicinal properties and can be found in health tonics, tinctures, teas, soups and herbal formulas. Lentinula edodes (shiitake) and Volvariella volvacea (Chinese or straw mushroom) are edible fungi with medicinal properties widely diffused and cultivated.

Importance of Mushrooms5.Medicinal Value

Shiitake are said to have antitumour and antiviral properties and remove serum cholesterol from the blood stream. Other species, such as Pleurotus (oyster), Auricularia (mu-er), Flammulina (enokitake), Termella (yin-er) and Grifola (maitake), all have varying degrees of immune system boosting, lipidlowering, anti-tumour, microbial and viral properties, blood pressure regulating, and other therapeutic

Importance of Mushrooms5.Medicinal Value

Through the provision of income and improved nutrition, successful cultivation and trade in mushrooms can strengthen livelihood assets, which can not only reduce vulnerability to shocks, but enhance an individual’s and a community’s capacity to act upon other economic opportunities.

Through the provision of income and improved nutrition, successful cultivation and trade in mushrooms can strengthen livelihood assets, which can not only reduce vulnerability to shocks, but enhance an individual’s and a community’s capacity to act upon other economic opportunities.

Consumption of mushrooms slows down the spread and effect of cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS (by boosting immune system).

Importance of Mushrooms5.Medicinal Value

S.No

Type Scientific Name

1 Button Mushroom Agaricus bisporus 2 Moral Mushroom Morchella esculenta3 Wild Mushroom4 Oyster Mushroom Pleaurotus ostreatus 5 Porcini Mushrooms6 Shitake Mushroom Lentinula edodes 7 Portobello Mushrooms 8 Ear Mushroom Auricularia auricula 9 Ganoderma Ganoderma lucidum10. Paddy Straw/Chinese Vulvariella volvaceae11. Truffles Tuber melanosporum

Types of Mushroom

Use of idle structures, Involvement of small initial capital, Possible production all the year round Use of Agricultural waste as substrate-

mostly waste materials from farms, plantations or factories.

Is a Biodegrader hence environmental con-server.

Advantages of Mushroom Growing

There is an old Chinese saying which states that “MEDICINES AND FOODS HAVE A COMMON ORIGIN”. Mushrooms constitute a most rapidly growing new food category which the current health-oriented public is increasingly enjoying.

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