Mushroom Cultivation – Brochure

Mushrooms are a nutritious food source, being rich in protein, vitamins and minerals. They are also known to contain substances that enhance the immune sysem, fight infectious diseases, and lower blood pressure and cholesterol evels. Mushrooms can be cultivated on a variety of substrates, including agricultural and agro-industrial waste materials such as cereal straw, grass straw, cotton waste, corn cobs, sugarcane bagasse coffee waste, sawdust, animal dung, chicken manure and brewers’ spent, which are abundant in sub-Saharan Africa, a predominantly agricultural Region. Mushroom growing is a means of Converting such non-edible biomass into food. The waste products of mushroom cultivation (spent compost) can also be used as organic fertilizer for growing vegetables. Therefore, mushroom cultivation is Zero waste technology .