Mushroom cultivation in Brazil: challenges and potential for growth

Mushroom Cultivation – Ethiopia

Trends in Mushroom cultivation and breeding

Mushrooms are highly nutritious and environment friendly crops that carry numerous medicinal benefits. The cultivation of edible mushrooms carries great relevance in todays’ world in the context of a burgeoning population growth and extreme pressure on the environment. But advances in research on mushroom breeding and production is very limited as compared to other crops. This maybe partly due ...

A Reliable Quality Index for Mushroom Cultivation

The aim of this study was to develop a systematic quality index for application in the cultivation of Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach mushrooms, based on the physical, chemical and biological properties (indicators) of the compost and casing layers (factors). The relative importance (weight) of each of the factors and indicators, their normalized scores, the quality index values and the correl...

Challenges and Prospects for Integrating the Assessment of Health Impacts in the Licensing Process of Large Capital Project in Brazil

Brazil was one of the first countries in Latin America to institutionalize a National Environmental Policy in 1981, including the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process of economic activities with anticipated impacts on the environment. Today, EIA practice in Brazil comes with a number of limitations: it is constrained by its environmental advocacy role; application is strongly oriented ...

Perspectives of Bioremediation through Mushroom Cultivation

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