25 Years of AICRP (Mushroom)
Fig. 2. Research Facilities at AICRPM Centre, Pune
was established for supplying mushroom spawn to the mushroom growers. At a later stage regular Coordinated Centre of AICRPM was sanctioned with an aim to carry out location specific trials on mushroom cultivation in Jharkhand.
2.3. Coimbatore Centre With the sustained research, teaching and extension activities of the Department of Plant Pathology at TNAU, mushroom cultivation has become one of the promising agricultural enterprises in Tamil Nadu since 1983. A mushroom theme park was established during 2002 and a new building for Mushroom Research and Training has been established during 2006 with a total cost of Rs. 26 lakhs.
2.5. Pantnagar Centre Mushroom research at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar was initiated in mid-seventies in the Department of Plant Pathology with a state financed ‘Mushroom Development Project’. Later, a regular Coordinated Centre of All India Coordinated Research Project on Mushroom was sanctioned in 1982 which started functioning from October, 1984. Creation of Centre laid foundation of systematic research on mushrooms at Pantnagar. Mushroom Research Laboratory
2.4. Ranchi Centre The research and training in mushroom production at this Centre started in 2001 with a grant from Central Sector Scheme on Integrated Development of Horticulture by Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India. Consequently a spawn laboratory 10