Techniques of Mushroom Cultivation

This book has been designed on Techniques of Mushroom Cultivation comprising methods, practices of spawn production and mushroom cultivation including technological advancements made during the course of time. Due to increasing importance of mushroom cultivation, the most of the educational institutions has introduced courses related to mushroom under Post-graduate (PG) and Under-graduate (UG) programmes. The book will be useful not only for the students and teachers, but also for researchers, extension workers to grasp the principle and techniques of different kinds of mushroom production as it contains recent protocols and hands on reproducible and reliable methods of mushroom cultivation. This book deals with techniques right from preparation of culture, preparation of substrates, production management, spawn production, cultivation of different edible mushrooms to post-harvest handling and value added products, written and compiled in a simple and pedagogic manner.