White button mushroom

  • Spawn (mushroom seeds)

Compost preparation 

  • (Good compost is dark brown, ammonia free, little greasiness and moisture 65-70%).
  • Spawning (mixing compost with spawns), Optimum dose for spawn ranges between 0.5 and 0.75% of fresh weight of compost. (Layer spawning/Surface spawning/Through Spawning).
  • Casing (Spawned compost is covered with sterilized hay, chalk powder).

Cropping 

  • Cropping cycle of 8-10 weeks an average yield of 10 kg mushroom/sq.m. with average biological efficiency 80 to 150%.The mushrooms remain fresh up to 3 to 6 days in a refrigerator/cool place.
  • Cropped mushrooms can be packed for marketing.