Week 10. Methods of Mushroom Cultivation
The cultivation of mushrooms can be both a relatively primitive farming activity, and a high technology industry. In each case, however, continuous production of successful crops requires both practical experience and scientific knowledge. Mushroom cultivation is both a science and an art. The science is developed through research; the art is perfected through curiosity and practical experience. Mushroom growth dynamics involve some technological elements, which are in consonance with those exhibited by our common agricultural crop plants. For example, there is a vegetative growth phase, when the mycelia grow profusely; and a reproductive growth phase, when the umbrella-like body that we call mushroom.
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- Week-1-Introduction to Fungi, what are mushrooms? Mushrooms and toad stools.
- Week 2. History of mushrooms
- Week 3. Global Trade of Mushrooms and biology and cultivation of edible fungi in Pakistan
- Week 4. What is nutrition? Nutritional and medicinal importance of edible fungi.
- Week 5. Mushroom as food in our diet.
- Week 6. Study of different parts of typical mushrooms
- Week 7. Some commonly cultivated edible mushrooms
- Week 8- Spawn production
- Week 9. MID EXAM
- Week 10. Methods of Mushroom Cultivation
- Week 11. Concept of mushroom technology, different phases of composting in mushroom cultivation
- Week 12. Mushroom cultivation-Spawning, Casing, Pinning and Cropping
- Week 13. Cultivation of oyster mushroom, its Nutritional and dietary importance
- Week 14. Diseases of Mushrooms- Fungal diseases of mushrooms
- Week 15. Bacterial and viral diseases of Mushrooms
- Week 16. Common insect pests and Nematode infestation in Mushroom crop
- Final Exam
- Chapters 17
- Department Plant Pathology
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Dr. Asma Safdar
