KB White Button Mushrooms

KB White Button Mushrooms is rated 3 out of 5 in the category food & beverages. Read and write reviews about KB White Button Mushrooms. Button Mushroom (Agarics spp.) is the most popular mushroom variety grown and consumed the world over. In India, its production earlier was limited to the winter season, but with technology development is produced almost throughout the country round the year in small, medium and large farms, adopting different levels of technology. Mushroom is one of the most important horticultural cash crops grown world over, and is least land dependent. A piece of land is required for building of infrastructure. The cultivation is done entirely indoors on substrates prepared from agricultural waste materials specially for the purpose of mushroom growing. Mushroom is a highly profitable cash crop in India, especially when raw materials and labour are available at cheap rates. Mushroom cultivation, which is of recent origin in India, has become popular all over the country especially with advancement in development of environment control systems. White button mushroom cultivation (Agarics Bosporus) was initiated at Solan, Himachal Pradesh in early sixties successfully. Since then mushroom cultivation has been taken up by private and government agencies all over the country. In hilly regions white button mushroom is commonly grown as a seasonal crop because of its low temperature requirement for cropping (15-18C), while as Oyster / Dhingra and paddy straw mushrooms are successfully grown in hot and humid regions, like coastal areas /peninsular India, under natural seasonal growing conditions. It is now possible to grow white button mushroom at any elevation/place with creation of necessary environment. Specially designed insulated cropping rooms are built to cut off the external environment with that of inside environment. The environment / climate inside the cropping rooms is simulated to exact conditions required for mushroom growth. This has enabled growers to harvest excellent crops.