Skill Enhancement Course - I

Mushroom Cultivation Technology & Commercial Nursery Management

Syllabus Units

Unit 1

Nursery Management Concepts: Types of nurseries, planning and layout design. Soil and media preparation, sterilization techniques, specialized propagation structures (polyhouses, green houses), and advanced grafting/budding operations.

Unit 2

Mushroom Production Technology: Introduction to edible mushrooms, nutritional values, and spawn production infrastructure. Detailed cultivation layout for Button, Oyster, and Paddy Straw mushrooms including substrate pasteurization.

Unit 3

Post-Harvest & Enterpreneurship: Cropping room management, sorting, grading, packaging solutions, short-term processing, value addition protocols, and formulating micro-enterprise financial charts.