Mushroom growers' meet held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 18 2016:
Temperate Mushroom Centre
and Integrated Mushroom
Association jointly organised
the all Manipur mushroom
growers' meet, 2016 at
Manipur Press Club today.
Dr N Prakash, Joint Di-
rector, ICAR, Manipur
Centre, Heisnam Tomba
Singh, DFO retired,
Rajkumar Yaiphaba, AGM,
NABARD, Manipur, Dr
Susheel Kumar Sharma, sci-
entist (plant pathology),
ICAR, Manipur Centre and
Sanyaola Kengoo Raman,
programme coordinator,
KVK, Imphal West attended
the programme as the chief
guest, president and guests
of honour respectively.
Delivering the keynote
address, Dhaljit Thiyam said
that the meet was held with
an objective to form a pro-
ducer company of
mushroom growers.
The
present marketing problem
will be mitigated, if not
completely solved, if the
producer company is once
formed.
There are about 360
mushroom growers regis-
tered with NABARD.
A
mushroom grower could
earn a profit of about Rs
40,000 per month, he added.