An entrepreneurial training program on Mushroom spawn production and Mushroom cultivation was organized by Mushroom Lab, Division of Crop Protection from 04th to 06th January 2023 and 9th to 13th January 2023. A total of 40 people from the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh attended the training. The group included 21 women entrepreneurs. There was a great diversity among the trainees with regards to educational qualification which ranged from Matriculation, intermediate, graduates, post graduates. The group was given advance end to end Hands on training on various aspects of Mushroom spawn production, Mushroom cultivation, Mushroom processing and value addition, Mechanization and energy management in mushroom farms, ancillary activities associated with mushroom industry and utilization of mushroom technology as a social enterprise.
