Post - Harvest Management of Mushrooms with Special Reference to Himachal Pradesh

The mushrooms of Himachal Pradesh should be established 'As a quality produce of India' in foreign markets to exploit present declining trend of mushroom production in many producing countries. In addition to that, the growers’ cooperatives/SHGs should also try to maintain the qualities to the international standards as well as explore the possibilities of exporting fresh mushrooms to nearby Middle East and southeast regions. For proper expansion of mushroom enterprises, sincere efforts are also to be made by traders, growers cooperatives, SHGs and Central/ State Govts, agencies to exploit vast domestic market by popularising the consumption of mushrooms as most nutritive, purely vegetative produce.