ROLE OF ICAR-IIHR IN ENHANCING MUSHROOM PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN INDIA
Mushroom Research laboratory at ICAR-IIHR is involved in multifarious activities which include Research, quality spawn production, training and extension towards dispelling many myths associated with mushroom cultivation and consumption and making mushrooms an important ingredient of the Indian diet.
Mushroom technology is one of the most eco-friendly technologies which can mitigate many social and environmental maladies like air pollution, malnutrition, unemployment and women empowerment.
Conserving the Mushroom Wealth:
ICAR-IIHR is involved in conserving the wild culinary medicinal mushroom germplasm from different geographical regions of the country. The lab has documented more than 400 species of wild mushrooms of which 11 genera are seasonally collected from the wild and consumed in different parts of the country. Conservation and development of domestication package of such mushrooms is an important aspect being undertaken in the laboratory. Pink oyster mushroom, Pleurotus djamor (Western ghats), Wild strain of Pleurotus cystidiosus (Bengaluru), Species of Macrocybe (Bengaluru), Lentinula tuber-regium (Tripura), Clitocybe and calocybe species (Gujarat) are some of the wild strains which have been domesticated.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF Mushroom Research Laboratory, Division of Plant Pathology, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru.
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