Abstract

Mushroom is very nutritious and environment friendly crop additionally to numerous medicinal values. Mushroom contain low protein amount than the animals but way more in case of plants. Except iron it contain higher amount of fiber, essential amino acids and minerals. It is not only a vegetable of full of nutrients as Vitamin D but also it has a property that can prevent cancer, HIV-1 AIDS (a serious disease in human being) and others diseases. It is a crop which requires minimum resources and space to cultivate, which is grown in all over the world and with minimum cost throughout the year. It has a marvelous prospective and petition for growing a nutritious food item with superb taste from agricultural waste substrates that are rich and low expensive for growing, mushroom is a very environmentally friendly crop; lignocellulosic waste material can be also converted into food, feed and fertilizers by its cultivation. However, the consumption and production of mushrooms is much lower than other crops, so the investment in the mushroom industry is not very large.

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