| Author | Yadav, Awadh Narain |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.AE-88-42 |
| Subject(s) | Mushroom culture
|
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Two experiments on the farmer's identified problems on straw
mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) productivity were conducted at
AIT. Experiment I was conducted with different bed sizes and the
Experiment II with different degrees of shade. The temperature,
relative humidity of both bed and the environment and the fresh
yield of mushrooms were recorded.
In the bed size experiment conducted in February/March, it
was found that the bed height affected the bed temperature. The
temperature increased with the bed height and affected the
mushroom yield. The high bed size having the highest temperature
yielded the lowest . The low and medium beds having a temperature
range between 360c to 400c yielded the highest. These two beds
yielded the similar in terms of per kilogram of substrate.
The experiment with shade in April, showed that the straw
mushroom yield under full shade was significantly higher than the
partial and no shade treatments. It was also higher than that of
the same bed size in February/March crop by 4. 3 %.
Straw mushroom growing as a catch crop from February to
April is a profitable enterprise. It returns to family labour
three times as high as the opportunity cost of labour. With the
available on - farm resources the potentiality exists for
increasing the current farming scale of straw mushroom by upto
1. 8 times. |
| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Agricultural and Food Engineering (AE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Peacock, Christabel P. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Gartner, Joseph A. ;Tontyaporn S.
|
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Deutscher Akdemischer Austanschdienst
(DAAD)
(German Academic Exchange Service) |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1988 |