Adoption of Innovative Mushroom Cultivation: A Success Story of Farmer

Abstract

The mandate of Krishi Vigyan Kendra is to provide the innovative idea to the farmers and rural youth for their income generation or self-employment. Keeping this in mind, the KVK has accompanied the training program on mushroom cultivation. The innovative and small farmer after taking the training, started the mushroom cultivation. A small hut of size 15 x 10 x 10 cu. feet was made from locally available materials. He harvested the oyster mushroom 105.0 kg in year 2017-18 and button mushroom 110 kg and 100.0 kg in year 2018-19 and 2019-20, respectively. The one kilogram of fresh mushroom fetches average price Rs. 150-160/kg in local markets and earned the Rs. 48,250.00 and cost benefit ratio was 1: 2.09. The Ram Singh is a role model for the fellow farmers/rural youth and many farmers are inspired by him. In local market, he was also known by mushroom farmer.