Mushroom Laboratory

Mushroom laboratory in S.V.P.U.A.&T. Meerut has been established in 2008 which was strengthened with the help of N.H.M./U.P.C.A.R. financed project i.e. “Establishment of Mushroom spawn Laboratory” for the period 2008-2009. The Teaching of Under Graduate course like Experiential Learning and RAWE programme on mushroom production has been started. Post graduate Teaching and research (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) work on mushroom has been started in Mushroom laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology, S.V.P. Univ. of Ag. & Tech., Meerut (U.P.) from academic session 2008-09. Research activities at mushroom laboratory include basic strategies, applied research and validation on production technologies to enhance productivity of edible mushroom. Extension activities include Farmer advisory service, Training and demonstrations of production Technology are also being organized with help of Krishi Vigyan Kendras of the University with technical support of mushroom laboratory.

Infrastructure of Mushroom laboratory

Mushroom laboratory have one well equipped spawn laboratory and four crop rooms.

Spawn Lab

Mother/commercial spawn of cultivated mushrooms are made available to researchers and mushroom grower on payment basis.

Crop Rooms

Three experimental crop rooms and one spawn running room are available for mushroom production under different environmental condition.

With the above facilities and other departmental facilities mushroom research and spawn production work has been started. But Mushroom compost Unit and some additional facilities (equipments, glassware, chemicals and skilled/Unskilled persons etc.) is required to meet the demand of teaching, Research and Extension (training and demonstration) facilities to disseminate production technologies for mushroom growers in western Uttar Pradesh.

Opportunities

To provide technical support by training and demonstration for production as well as supply of pasteurized compost of growers, the pasteurized mushroom compost until will be beneficial for self employment generation in jurisdiction area of the university. The teaching and research activities for different edible and medicinal mushroom. Therefore development of infrastructure facilities of mushroom laboratory will take place.

Infrastructure of Mushroom laboratory

Mushroom laboratory have one well equipped spawn laboratory and four crop rooms.

Spawn Lab

Mother/commercial spawn of cultivated mushrooms are made available to researchers and mushroom grower on payment basis.

Crop Rooms

Three experimental crop rooms and one spawn running room are available for mushroom production under different environmental condition.

With the above facilities and other departmental facilities mushroom research and spawn production work has been started. But Mushroom compost Unit and some additional facilities (equipments, glassware, chemicals and skilled/Unskilled persons etc.) is required to meet the demand of teaching, Research and Extension (training and demonstration) facilities to disseminate production technologies for mushroom growers in western Uttar Pradesh.

Opportunities

To provide technical support by training and demonstration for production as well as supply of pasteurized compost of growers, the pasteurized mushroom compost until will be beneficial for self employment generation in jurisdiction area of the university. The teaching and research activities for different edible and medicinal mushroom. Therefore development of infrastructure facilities of mushroom laboratory will take place.

Rationale

In Uttar Pradesh, due to availability of unemployed rural youth as man power, cheap raw materials and climate, mushroom production should be very useful in districts under SVPUA&T, Meerut as major portion comes near N.C.R. Delhi. This will be easier to approach the market for mushroom. It will help to generate self employment. Therefore, it is desirable to provide technical support in form of training as well as demonstrations of production technologies of different mushrooms and their spawn through proposed project.

Extension Activities

One day awareness training conducted in Mushroom Lab Meerut U.P.

Date of Training	Number of Participant	Number of Male Participant	Number of Female Participant
08.09.2017	50	40	10
08.12.2017	48	42	06
21.02.2018	46	40	06
17.03.2018	50	42	08

Coverage in mass media

Title	Number	Place	Organizer
Participations in exhibitions	01	Meerut	SVPUA&T
TV programs	Nil	Nil	Nil
Radio programs	01	Najibabad	Akashvani
Farmers Scientists exhibition	04	Meerut/Bijnour/Ghaziabad/Muzaffar Nagar	Krishi Vigyan Kendra
News paper coverage	02	Meerut	Amar Ujala/ Dainik Jagaran

Exposer Visit of Farmers

Title	Number	Place	Organizer
Number of formers	120	Meerut	State Agriculture Department
State wise Number(U.P) Gender wise distribution	120 M100 F20	Meerut	State Agriculture Department

Consultancy Provided

Title	Number of Visit	Place
Free consultancy to Manyuk Mushroom farm	04	Garh(Hapur)

Visit of dignitaries

Date	Particular
12.01.2018	Professor Gaya Prasad vice chancellor SVPUAT Meerut U.P
18.08.2017	Professor Vibha Srivastava with Six Students of Cornel University U.S.A

Spawn Supply

Species wise/mushroom wise spawn supply	Master spawn sold	Culture tubes sold	Commercial Spawn Sold
Oyster	Nil	02	200 kg
Milky	Nil	02	68 kg

Experiential learning: On Spawn and Mushroom Production

Number of Students	Gender wise distribution	Place
10	Male 10, Female 00	Mushroom Lab

Folder

Gopal singh. 2017 Oyster Mushroom Utpadan takneek.

Paper presentation in seminars/symposia

Gopal Singh. 2017. Prospects of Mushrooms in homoepathy on 30.04.2017 in state homoepathic conference in Lucknow.

Thesis Guided- M.Sc. Student

Thesis Title

Studies on Differnet Rates and Storage Time of Spawn on Production of Syster Mushroom (Pleurotus Florida) Submitted to Svpuat Meerut In July-2017.