mushroom farming

Hiresha Verma's startup Hanzen International helps women across Uttarakhand earn stable livelihood through mushroom farming, growing varieties such as oyster, milky, and portobello, as well as medicinal mushrooms like shiitake, ganoderma, cremini and enoki varieties. She also sells produce in different parts of India through Han Agrocare

After Uttarakhand's Satinder Rawat lost his job due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he joined hands with his wife to launch a mushroom business that is earning them lakhs today

Besides training over 500 farmers in Nagaland, his startup has gone on to generate approximately 20,00,000 Shiitake dowel spawns and 25,000 kg of Oyster mushroom spawns.

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

From growing a kilo of mushrooms to winning the Nari Shakti Puraskar, this Bihar Nari is all things inspiring!

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!

Using their decades of experience, 75-year-old Rohini and her 84-year-old husband have dedicated their retired years to the welfare of Kollam’s farmers. The kind of heroes India truly needs!

“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.”

He kickstarted the venture in September 2018, and after grappling with a few initial losses, is finally beginning to make profits.