About the Book

Mushrooms are one of the centres of attraction for their nutritional and pharmaceutical values. These include a wide diversity of  wild species all over the globe and have various use patterns linked with ethnic communities. Still, a few of them are being cultivated at commercial scale with adequate scientific and technological input. Mushroom cultivation with proper market linkage is one of the best practices of livelihood  promotion  and entrepreneurship development. This book encompasses a brief introduction to mushrooms, details about the requirements and procedure of mushroom cultivation, food and nutritional properties of some mushrooms, mushroom disease and management, marketing strategy and cost benefit analysis etc.. keeping in mind the syllabus of Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC) of undergraduate Botany of most of the Indian universities. It would also be useful to researchers, social workers, farmers, industrialists and others who are working on livelihood promotion through natural resource management.