Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Biology of Mushrooms. 3. The potential of the Mushroom industry in India. 4. Benefits of Mushroom growing. 5. Mushroom recipes. 6. Types of Mushroom. 7. Mushroom production technology. 8. Insect pests o Mushroom. 9. Fungal diseases of mushrooms. 10. Bacterial diseases. 11. General guidelines. 12. Constrains in Mushroom cultivation. 13. Future prospects. 14. For better Mushroom industry in India. Bibliography. Index.

Mushrooms have been described as Food for God in classic writings of Vedas. The earliest word in Sanskrit appeared to be Ksumpa, in Hindi as Kumbhi in Gujarati it is known as Biladino Top Chinese people were the first to do the artificial cultivation of the mushroom about thousand years ago systematic study of mushroom fungi is only 250 years old real commercial cultivation of button mushroom started by Europeans during 16th and 17th century Mushroom cultivation in India began in the year 1962 in Himachal Pradesh at Solan. The first improvised small mushroom farm was established by the Government of India at Solan in 1965. Since then mushroom production in India has increased from 7000 tons in the year 1983 to 70,000 tons in the year 2004.