Mushroom

Mushroom is a fungi species, and it comes with a high nutritious vegetarian delicacy and a good source of high-quality protein. The three types of mushrooms are cultivated in India that are white mushroom, oyster mushroom, and paddy-straw mushroom.

Mushroom is highly harvested in Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana. Punjab state gives the 50 percent of the mushroom production. Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Haryana give 90 percent of the country’s production.

Mushrooms have vitamins and minerals, such as B complex and iron. It is a rich source of quality proteins, such as lysine. Mushroom comes with cholesterol-free, and it has rich in anti-oxidants. Mushroom is a growth in non-traditional cash crops in India.

It is growth in seasonal plants cultivated under the controlled environmental conditional in indoor. India harvesting mushrooms is an oyster, milky, paddy straw mushroom, which is grown in the tropical and subtropical regions, and button mushroom is cultivated in the temperate regions.