Year: 2022 | Month: June | Volume 67 | Issue 3
Economics of Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus spp) Production in Bhagalpur District of Bihar
Nitu Kumari
Abhishek Anand
Sandeep Kumar
Chandan Kumar Panda
Meera Kumari
DOI:10.46852/0424-2513.3.2022.18
Abstract:
The mass population of India was vegetarian and attracted to mushroom consumption because they have contained more nutrients like vitamins, minerals, fibers, and medicinal value. The mushroom species (oyster, button, milky and paddy straw) was identified for cultivation in upper and hilly regions of the Indian states suitable for white button mushrooms and plain areas of lower altitude regions in favor of oyster ‘Dhingri’ (Plutorus sages Kaju) mushroom. Moreover, growers have doesn’t fully organize form of mushroom per unit sale in Bhagalpur & territories market of Bihar as well as other states of India. The strategic economic problem of the net sown area was limiting shrink factors day by day due to increase the infrastructure alternate option is open but human population is pressurized for fulfilling the demand become inevitable to best alternative option to supplementary mushroom growing opportunity. Mushroom production in locale area under Bhagalpur district of Bihar was purposively studies of the fourteen each block and village panchayat with the help of snowball referral to subsequent respondents collected 71 complete lists enumerated then obtained sample size (Taro Yamane) 60 oyster growers and cumulative cube root frequency distribution techniques were used. The major variable costs of oyster mushroom that spawn cost was higher expenses followed by the human labour, chopped dry straw, plant protection and polythene bags. The overall farms of fresh oyster mushroom production were accounted to be on an average 16.90 Kg (m2) per square meter, which were varied to be on an average 18.48 Kg (m2) per square meter higher for large farms followed by 16.99 Kg (m2) per square meter of medium farm and 15.16 Kg (m2) per square meter for the small farm. The overall farm benefit-cost ratio (BCR) was estimated to be on average 1.31 which varied to 1.40 higher for large farms followed by 1.31 for medium farms and 1.19 for small farms. Further, the cost of oyster mushroom production per unit was decreased when the increase in the size of farms and vice-versa.
Highlights
- The cost of production per unit of oyster mushroom was declined trends when the increase in the size of oyster mushroom growers at the same time scale of economics was increased otherwise decrease and vice-versa of the outputs respond with the size of growers. The oyster mushroom cultivation of their day-to-day operational work control point was situated on individual growers or by default of individual hands in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar.
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