mushroom cultivation

Diagnosed with polio at the age of two, Mandya’s Ramakrishna J has helped 300 other farmers get started with this low-cost business!

Determined that she will never use chemicals on her mushroom farm, Monika Chowdhry barely broke even in her first year. From her second year though, she has seen her farm flourish & harvests over 40 kg every week!

Eramalloor native Shije Varghese has been growing mushrooms since 2007 and has turned it to a fruitful venture.

“It requires very less space to grow. In fact, if you start cultivating oyster mushrooms in a 2-litre soft drink bottle, it will give you a yield of about 0.5 kg in the first batch itself.”

"People are unaware of the vast varieties and their nutritive value. There are varieties that most of us have never seen or tasted before, which can be grown in India without relying on imported packages.”

In fact, oyster mushrooms, one of the lesser-known varieties are rich in nutrients and grow very well with leftover straw.

Anita implemented her knowledge of horticulture in mushroom cultivation, and today her annual earnings are in lakhs!

Polio-stricken as a child, ace apiculturist Sangeeta Deol didn’t poverty or disability stop her from spearheading a farming revolution in Punjab.

Divya Rawat is using mushroom cultivation as a way of curbing migration and providing livelihoods to people in Uttarakhand. This is also helping repopulate many 'ghost villages' in the state.