Kigali Farms Ltd, a mushroom growing company based in Musanze District, has unveiled a mushroom village in Gahunga sector, Musanze - a project seen as a solution to malnutrition in Northern and Western provinces. The project, which comprises of 15 growing houses, is expected to boost farmers' yields through increased …
Kigali Farms Ltd, a mushroom growing company based in Musanze District, has unveiled a mushroom village in Gahunga sector, Musanze - a project seen as a solution to malnutrition in Northern and Western provinces. The project, which comprises of 15 growing houses, is expected to boost farmers' yields through increased …
The ninth volume of the Report of the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) examines the need and the scope to develop additional economic activities in the agrarian rural economy. Such farm-linked activities, where developed in the hands of farmers and farming communities, benefit by enhancing the core farm income …
The ninth volume of the Report of the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) examines the need and the scope to develop additional economic activities in the agrarian rural economy. Such farm-linked activities, where developed in the hands of farmers and farming communities, benefit by enhancing the core farm income …
BABATI, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Magdalena Gwasuma ducks carefully into a small, dark cage at the back of her house, where rows of fresh oyster mushrooms sit on wooden shelves. “I didn’t know anything about growing mushrooms at home - we used to get them from the forest,” the …
Eastern Himalayas, particularly the small mountain state of Sikkim, is emerging as a treasure trove for botanists, mycologists and naturalists who in the year 2015 alone have discovered as many as nine species of wild mushrooms (belonging to kingdom fungi) of which at least one species is highly appreciated and …
With increasing demand in the local market, mushroom cultivation is picking up fast in Kashmir. Thousands of quintals of high quality mushroom are now being grown across the Valley. Officials of the agriculture department attribute this to the introduction of low-cost technology and government-sponsored schemes. Good dividends have drawn more …
To provide value-addition in farming activities and arrest the falling farm incomes in the district, the Department of Agriculture is set to introduce ‘Integrated Farming System' practices on a commercial basis in the entire 13 blocks. The integrated system is the concept of judicious mixing of poultry, mushroom cultivation, fisheries, …
A mushroom used for making medicines for treating more than 20 different human ailments ranging from HIV and bronchial asthma to diabetes and angina can now be grown easily at home. Scientists of the Forest Research Institute have developed a simple technique for cultivating the Ganoderma lucidum mushroom on poplar …
Solan: Scientists of the Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, have achieved a rare feat by developing high- yielding hybrids of white button mushroom through crossing. The newly developed hybrid-4 is a cross between U3 and A-15 and it has recorded an outstanding average yield of 26.10 …
The book comprises large number of articles based on years of in-depth research in the state by scholars who are affiliated to premier research institutes. It covers topics related to biogeography, lichens, Mushrooms, ferns, flowering plants, trees, orchids, alpine vegetation, NTFP, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, butterflies, insects, birds, pheasants, mammals, red …
Poor access to appropriate technologies due to difficult topographies and tough mountain conditions is one of the major causes of poverty, drudgery and natural resources degradation not only in the Indian Central Himalaya, but also in other parts of the Hindu-Kush Himalaya. Of late, deve- lopment planners have realized the …
With chlorinated water being identified as a key reason of residue problem, scientists have suggested the use of chlorine-free water for spraying in mushroom cultivation. This was one of the key recommendations which emerged during a two-day national seminar on
One of the great acumen of those living close to nature is that they know exactly when nature offers a gift. Soon after the first shower in the month of Shravana, which usually falls between July and August, tribal women along the hilly border of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh set out …
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 …
Three-day mushroom farming training camp was inaugurated at Central Jail Bhopal which is being organised by Agriculture Research Centre Gwalior with the cooperation of Science Technology Council Bhopal. Director General MP Science and Technology Council Pramod Verma was present and vice president MP Gaupalan Evam Pashudhan Sambardan Board Padam Baraiya …
- College teacher focuses on local varieties rugra and khukhriA woman sells rugra mushrooms at Kutchery Chowk in Ranchi. File pictureRanchi, Aug.11: The state science and technology department is considering a biotechnology professor
For effective use of agro-technologies in cultivating edible and protein-rich mushrooms, and popularising it among masses, city-based entrepreneur and proprietor of the Mushroom Development Foundation (MDF), Guwahati, Pranjal Baruah, was today felicitated by the North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat. Baruah has been popularising mushroom cultivation among …
Shimla: Introduced as a cash crop to supplement the meagre income of farmers from small landholdings, mushroom cultivation has started suffering a decline over the past three years. The official data published in the economic review reveals that the production has declined from 4,318 tonnes in 2006-07 to 3,417 tonnes …
In the absence of agricultural fields, or perhaps because of that, a school in Delhi is revisiting its kitchen dustbins, newspapers and musty corners. Far from climate-change and sustainable waste management rhetoric, DTEA School, Moti Bagh, has found use for old newspapers and kitchen waste: growing mushrooms on the mulch, …
