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India is 1 of the countries with debased mushroom consumption, contempt mushrooms being a affluent root of nutrition. According to experts, the per capita depletion of mushrooms successful India is simply a specified 100 g per year, compared to 15 to 20 kg successful China, 10 kg successful the US, and 8 to 10 kg successful Europe.
With a immense imaginable for the state to drawback up with mushroom accumulation and consumption, the University of Agricultural Sciences-Bengaluru is trying to springiness a propulsion to mushroom manufacture by joining hands with Mushroom Exchange and others to organise India Mushroom Summit-2025 successful Bengaluru from November 3 to 7.
From 11 countries
Briefing media persons, Anurag Saxena, laminitis manager of Milkiway, which is the co-organiser, said experts and entrepreneurs from 11 countries, including the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Nepal, and Bhutan, would be the lawsuit that is aimed astatine expanding mushroom depletion done summation successful mushroom cultivation.
The lawsuit volition person a two-day league and accumulation from November 3 to 4 and a three-day grooming league connected cultivation of mushrooms from November 5 to 7.
He said the acme aimed astatine strengthening the mushroom worth concatenation by linking growers, suppliers, investors and markets too encouraging innovation and probe done collaborations.
UAS-B Vice-Chancellor Dr. S. V. Suresha said expanding mushroom depletion would spell a agelong mode successful ensuring nutritional security.
The assemblage was aiming astatine not lone creating consciousness among farmers to instrumentality up mushroom cultivation arsenic a profitable venture, but was besides looking astatine expanding mushroom exports done prime production. “We privation educated farmers to not lone turn mushrooms, but besides go entrepreneurs by taking up their selling done links with integer platforms. Also Mushroom assemblage has precocious imaginable for employment creation. We privation to research this,” helium said.
Five-day course
He explained that arsenic a build-up to the summit, the assemblage had commenced a five-day paid people that covers each aspects of mushrooms, close from cultivation to selling and concern planning. A full of 250 persons, including doctors, engineers, and those from firm sectors, had been trained truthful acold nether this people successful the past 1 twelvemonth and astir of them had gone connected to go mushroom entrepreneurs, helium noted.
