Mushrooms 50 times more expensive than cashew-almonds: In Gwalior, leaving the job of the principal, grew a mushroom worth 50 thousand rupees per kg; Annual turnover of 50 lakhs

Mushroom being prepared in Dr. Goswami’s lab.

First professor then became principal in private college. After working for 10 years, he left the job. Took training in Vietnam for mushroom cultivation. After this he started growing mushroom of Cordyshep variety at home. The annual turnover from farming in just 500 square feet has reached Rs 50 lakh.

This person is Dr. HS Goswami, resident of Mahalgaon. Dr. Goswami told that since 2018 he has been growing mushrooms. Earn up to one lakh rupees every month from this. They are preparing 48 types of products related to mushrooms. It includes hair oil, cosmetic, body lotion, herbal face pack etc.

Cordyshape Mushroom Increases Stamina

According to Dr. Goswami, Cordyshape mushroom grows in a cold region. It is mostly cultivated in Nepal, Bhutan, China and Tibet. The price of this mushroom in the international market is about 3 lakh rupees per kg. In India it sells up to 50 thousand rupees per kg. That is, it is 50 times more expensive than cashew-almonds.

Dr. Goswami grows up to 5 kg of mushrooms every month. It is prepared on the top of the bottle in the lab. Brownrice is poured into the bottle. About 15 grams of mushroom comes out in one bottle. It takes about two months to prepare mushrooms in a bottle.

Pencil made from scrap newspaper to save trees from being cut

Falit Goyal, who has done MTech, is an environment lover. He kept thinking about how to save trees from being cut. He started the work of making pencils from newsprint, which is in great demand in the market. Every year about 80 thousand trees are cut in the country to make pencils. In order to save these costs, now they are preparing pencils, pens and tooth brushes from the canceled newspaper at home and selling them online in the market.

Along with this, they are also supplying in shops. He supplies pencils worth about one lakh rupees in the market every month. Fruity lives in the city center. Mushroom and pencil were displayed in the state level exhibition of NABARD at Agriculture College on Sunday.