Dj Venkatesh
Diglipur, Nov 30: A two days training programme on “Mushroom Cultivation” was conducted at Durgapur village in the field of a women entrepreneur by Department of Agriculture, Diglipur under extension reform scheme of ATMA on 28.11.18 & 29.11.18.
During the inaugural session the ATMA team welcomed the chief guest – Mr. Gautam Biswas, Pradhan Shibpur, ward member, & trainees.
Mr. Dilip Kumar, Assistant Director (Agri.), Diglipur informed the gathering about such training programme to create awareness and to motivate the women farmers to practice mushroom cultivation for better income generation and explained about the method of cultivation and marketing scope. He encouraged them to become entrepreneur in mushroom production to fulfil the local demand and to utilize the opportunity in tourism sector.
The training comprises of various topics such as Different method of mushroom cultivation with special emphasis on cultivation of paddy straw mushroom, cost benefit ratio of mushroom cultivation and recomposing of spent mushroom substrate, Demonstration on filling up of mushroom bags, Nutritive value of mushroom in diet & mushroom recipes, value addition of mushroom and post harvest handling.
All together 20 farmers attended the programme, the training was successfully conducted with the help of the pradhan, ward member and farmers along with the involvement of concerned AFA, BTM & ATM’s (ATMA), Diglipur.
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