MUSHROOM SPAWN.
Spawn is the vegetative mycelium from a selected mushroom grown on a convenient medium like wheat, millet, sorghum, etc for mushroom production. It essentially involves preparation of pure culture of mushroom from tissues/spores that is generally maintained on appropiate growing medium, followed by culturing on sterilized grains and further multiplied on grains. The spawn thus comprises of mycelium of the mushroom and a supporting medium which provides nutrition to the fungus during its growth. Before the advent of grain spawn, different kinds of spawn used were natural or Virgin spawn (from the pastures & meadows), Flake spawn (breaking of beds through which mushroom mycelium has run), Milltrack spawn (bricks dried and made from mixture of horse dung, cow dung and loan soil) and manure spawn (on sterilized horse manure or compost manure).
Oyster mushrooms are by far the easiest and least expensive to grow. For small cultivators with limited budgets, oyster mushrooms are the clear choice for gaining entry into gourmet mushroom industry. Pleurotus species grow on a wider array of forest and agricultural wastes than species from any other group. Pleurotus species can best serve to reduce hunger in developing nations and to revitalize rural economics. Most extraordinary about the oyster mushrooms is their conversion of substrate mass into the mushrooms (Paul stamets, 1993).
Pleurotus species are efficient lignin degraders, which can grow on different agricultural wastes with broad adaptability to varied agro-climatic conditions (Jandiak & Goyal 1995).
Mushroom cultivation is compatible with other farming and horticultural activities. It can be regarded as a very efficient system in recycling with no waste from production to consumption. Mushrooms both add flavor to bland staple foods and are a valuable food in their own right; they are often considered to provide a fair substitute to meat, with at least a comparable nutritional value to many vegetables. The consumption of mushrooms can make a valuable addition to the often unbalanced diets of people in developing countries (Elaine Marshall and N.G (Tan) Nair, 2009).
Oyster mushrooms are by far the easiest and least expensive to grow. For small cultivators with limited budgets, oyster mushrooms are the clear choice for gaining entry into gourmet mushroom industry. Pleurotus species grow on a wider array of forest and agricultural wastes than species from any other group. Pleurotus species can best serve to reduce hunger in developing nations and to revitalize rural economics. Most extraordinary about the oyster mushrooms is their conversion of substrate mass into the mushrooms (Paul stamets, 1993).
Pleurotus species are efficient lignin degraders, which can grow on different agricultural wastes with broad adaptability to varied agro-climatic conditions (Jandiak & Goyal 1995).
Mushroom cultivation is compatible with other farming and horticultural activities. It can be regarded as a very efficient system in recycling with no waste from production to consumption. Mushrooms both add flavor to bland staple foods and are a valuable food in their own right; they are often considered to provide a fair substitute to meat, with at least a comparable nutritional value to many vegetables. The consumption of mushrooms can make a valuable addition to the often unbalanced diets of people in developing countries (Elaine Marshall and N.G (Tan) Nair, 2009).
Pleurotus species contain high potassium to sodium ratio, which makes mushrooms an ideal food for patients suffering from hypertension & heart diseases. Recently, mushrooms have become attractive as functional foods and as a source of physiologically beneficial medicines, while being devoid of undesirable side effects (Sadler M, 2003).
Mushrooms are known to be medically active in several therapies, such as antitumour, antibacterial, antiviral, haematological and immunomodulating treatments (Wasser, 2002; Lindequist et al., 2005).
-SPAWN PRODUCTION OF PLEUROTUS OSTREATUS (WHITE OYSTER MUSHROOM) FROM ORGANIC LIQUID CULTURES.
Mamaland Mushroom Farms.
Mamaland Mushroom Farm(2015).
E-Mail:-Mamalandmushroomproject@gmail.com,
Phone/Watsapp:+255621-080300/+255682-757566.
Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin/Google+:Mamaland mushroom farm. Blog:Mamalandmushroomproject.blogspot.com
-Fight Back Against Malnutrition,Save Lives. #Mushroom_Is_Therapy.
Mamaland Mushroom Farm(2015).
E-Mail:-Mamalandmushroomproject@gmail.com,
Phone/Watsapp:+255621-080300/+255682-757566.
Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin/Google+:Mamaland mushroom farm. Blog:Mamalandmushroomproject.blogspot.com
-Fight Back Against Malnutrition,Save Lives. #Mushroom_Is_Therapy.
Kalonga,AE.
Department of Spawn Laboratory, Mamaland Mushroom Farms(2015)
Mamalandmushroomproject@gmail.com.
Morogoro,Tanzania.
