TAILIEUCHUNG - Effect of different substrates on the growth and yield of Milky mushrooms in Telangana, India

Performance of milky mushroom (Calocybe indica) on different agricultural wastes like paddy straw, castor stalks, sunflower stalks, coconut coir pith, oil palm waste and groundnut shells was evaluated during the summer season. The spawning was done by sterilization of all the seven substrates. The bags were kept in spawn running room with the maintenance of temperature (30°C–35° C) and relative humidity (70–80 %) respectively. The minimum number of days required for completion of spawn run (30 days), primordial formation (10-15 days) and days for first harvest (40–45 days) was recorded with the paddy straw substrate followed by castor stalks where the minimum number of days required for completion of spawn run (33 days), primordial formation (10– 15 days) and days for first harvest (43–48days). The experimental results revealed that paddy straw substrate was best and recorded an average yield of to kg per bed as compared to the other substrates. After paddy straw, the yield of milky mushrooms on coconut coir pith (806 g/ kg substrate) and oil palm waste (830 g/ kg substrate) was found on par with each other and yielded more compared to other substrates. Mushroom growers can adopt paddy straw substrate for growing milky mushrooms during summer season. The relative efficacy of the agricultural by-products analysed in the study indicated that paddy straw substrate is suitable for cultivation of milky mushrooms. | Effect of different substrates on the growth and yield of Milky mushrooms in Telangana, India

• Nông nghiệp
• Milky mushroom
• Calocybe indica
• Different substrates
• Growth and yield of Milky mushrooms
• Milky mushrooms
• Milky mushroom (Calocybe indica) organic supplements
• Different organic supplements
• Production of milky mushroom
• Productivity of milky mushroom
• Maize stalks
• Milky mushroom cultivation
• Maize stalks for milky mushroom cultivation
• Feasibility of maize stalks
• Milky mushroom cultivation instead of burning
• Nutritional security
• Milky mushroom (Calocybe indica)
• Nutraceuticals of five strains
• Straw substrates
• Casing materials
• Biological efficiency and CI
• milky mushroom (Calocybe indica P&C
• Value addition
• Unemployed youth
• Value addition trainings
• Biological efficiency
• Milky mushroom varieties
• Kanyakumari district
• Fruiting body
• Yield maximization in white milky mushroom
• Coconut coir pith
• Sugarcane baggase
• Niger stick
• Evaluation of different substrates
• Degradation ability
• Nutritional quality
• Digestible crude protein
• Nutritional quality of different strains
• Mass media
• Vocational training programme
• Milky mushroom farming
• Get outcome of the training
• Mandate of KVKs