The Mushroom Development Foundation plans to set up seven clusters in the state with an expert panel in each of them for supervision to help mushroom cultivators boost production. Monitoring committees have already been constituted in four of these clusters, each comprising 60 to 100 farmers, with a target of producing 5kg mushroom a day by a farmer. These include Merapani, Komargaon, Digboi and Makum. Three more clusters, Nagrijuli, Chandrapur and Boko are in the developing process. Launched in 1995, the foundation aims to establish an innovative economic system among the farming community by bridging the gap between the farmers and the growing market. In 2005, the foundation had set up five clusters in the Northeast