A three-day training course on the “Cultivation of Summer Season/Tropical Mushrooms” concluded at the Skill Development Centre, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). As many as 33 rural women attended the training course held under the guidance of Dr MS Bhullar, Director of Extension Education, and organised in cooperation with the Department of Microbiology, PAU.
Advocating the adoption of mushroom cultivation as a subsidiary occupation, Dr (Mrs) Rupinder Kaur observed that this profitable enterprise was a gateway to self-employment and financial sustainability. Involving less investment and space, several entrepreneurs were receiving monetary gains from mushroom growing due to its growing demand in the food industry as delicacy and its processing in the form of powder, pickles and other nutritional recipes , she said.
The resource persons comprising Dr Shivani Sharma, Dr Jaspreet Kaur, Dr Sonika Sharma, Dr Rakesh Rathore and Mr Arshdeep Singh shared agronomic practices for successful mushroom cultivation, health benefits of tropical mushrooms, processing of mushrooms, making of value added products using mushrooms, etc.
Earlier, Dr Prerna Kapila welcomed the trainees and the experts. Later, Mrs Kanwaljit Kaur proposed a vote of thanks.
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