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Button mushroom farming and farm design

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdoXwzjuvdE

Duration:

05:36:00

Year of Production:

2022

Source/Author:

Discover Agriculture

English

Considerations

Always ensure enough ventilation in mushroom houses and reduce humidity for mushroom pin head formation. Furthermore, when starting a mushroom farm consider purchase good quality spawns for high yields.

Siting mushroom farm

Always establish mushroom farms away from people, in accessible ares, near water, raw materials and cheap labour. Additionally, ensure separation of mushroom production units for example spawn unit, composting unit, cropping unit and post harvest unit.

Low cost design

The low cost mushroom farm design consists of the cropping area, corridor, parking room, composting yard, boiler room and pasteurization tunnel. On the other hand

Sequence from	Sequence to	Description
00:00	00:39	Mushrooms can be grown from recyclable or agro byproducts and does not require big land.
00:40	00:59	Mushroom need 20-28 degrees for vegetative growth, 12-18 degrees for reproductive growth and 80-90% humidity.
01:00	01:29	Ensure enough ventilation in mushroom house and reduce humidity.
01:30	02:32	Mushrooms can be grown all year round. Ensure to buy good quality spawns.
02:33	03:00	Locate mushroom farm in accessible area, away from people, near water and cheap labour.
03:01	03:28	Separate mushroom production units. Types of mushroom farm design are low and high cost farming.
03:29	05:36	Low cost farm design consists of cropping area, corridor, parking room, composting yard, boiler room and pasteurization tunnel.

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