Training On Mushroom Cultivation

A one day training programme on "Mushroom Cultivation" will be conducted at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Information and Training Centre, on Wednesday (22.02.2012) between 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. The programme will be useful to house wives, farmers, youths, SHG, NGO’s and students etc. Training certificates, lunch, notes will be issued to all participants. 

Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruit bodies of several species. Edible mushrooms are consumed by humans for their nutritional and occasionally medicinal value as comestibles. Mushrooms consumed for health reasons are known as medicinal mushrooms. 

 

Edible mushrooms include many either harvested wild or cultivated. Easily cultivatable and common wild mushrooms are often available in markets, and those that are more difficult to obtain (such as the prized truffle and matsutake) may be collected on a smaller scale by private gatherers. Some preparations may render certain poisonous mushrooms fit for consumption.

 Before assuming that any wild mushroom is edible, it should be identified. Proper identification of a species is the only safe way to ensure edibility. A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. 

The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom. For details contact, The Professor and Head, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Information and Training Centre New No. P-44, (Old No. P-37), 6^th Avenue, (Behind K- 4 police station), Anna Nagar, Chennai-40 or call  044 -2626 3484.