MUSHROOM cultivation which fulfils the protein requirements of human beings requires less space, care, equipment and expenditure than many plants and animals. Different agricultural and industrial ...

Oyster mushroom [Pleurotus ostreatus var. sajor caju (Fr.) Singer] cultivation can play an important role in managing organic waste. It can be cultivated on a wide rang of substrates containing lignin ...

In Vietnam, more than 20 million tons of the straw are burned through four months of the year. Now a homegrown startup is tackling the issue by giving rice farmers an economic incentive to stop the ...

Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungi and typically develop above whatever substrate the mushroom is growing in, whether ...

The four popular exotic mushroom species currently grown and consumed in Uganda are button agaricus bisporus, the oyster pleurotus spp, shiitake lentinula edodes and reishi ganoderma lucidun. Out of ...