Compost and Casing of Mushroom in Indian Perspective: A Brief Review

The Himalayas, the Western Ghats, and highlands of northeast India are all temperate areas where mushrooms have been successfully grown. Recently, mushroom farming has become a popular kind self-employment for many unemployed people. It is past time that growers consumers in learned about therapeutic dietary benefits both farmed wild kinds mushrooms. majority white button mushrooms, accounting around 73 percent market. Compost necessary cultivating substrate which mycelium grows eventually produces fruiting bodies compost. critical shift from vegetative growth to reproductive stage occurs coating material, nutritionally deficient medium called casing layer. This layer plays vital part formation most crucial process cultivation composting casing, an impact on crop's productivity, quality, market value.