Expert Lists Mushroom Production Measures

Retirees have been urged to embrace mushroom production to boost their economic wellbeing as the process was cheap and self sustaining.

The Chief executive officer of Dilomat Farms and Services Limited, Chief Moore Chinda, has urged retirees to embrace mushroom farming.

Chinda who made the appeal in an exclusive interview in his office on Monday, explained that mushroom farming is easy with only few weeks of training.

According to Chief Chinda, Dilomat Farms was pioneering mushroom production in Nigeria and called on the government and private individuals to avail themselves of the opportunity of owning their own mushroom farms.

“Our focus is the Army, Police, students, teachers and even politicians.

“It will only take them two weeks intensive training and may be an additional one week and they are ready to establish their own farms.

He revealed that mushroom is the only plant that can be harvested within one week of planting and that the spent substrate could be used as fertiliser.

“Mushroom has the lowest gestation period of one week and you can starts your daily harvest within one week after training”.

According to Chief Chinda, mushroom farming was less stressful as there was no land limitation; no sunlight requirement, no weeding and all the inputs mainly agricultural were locally available.

“Land area not limiting factor, planting is both vertical and horizontal, maximum utilisation of waste land.

“All imputs mainly agricultural waste locally available, like saw – dust, rice bran, wheat bran, cotton waste, sugar cane, banana and plantain leaves among others”.