Mushroom cultivation: Substantial key to food security

Abstract

The worldwide sustenance and wholesome security of the expanding population is a generous test, which searches for new harvest (better yield from conventional ones) as a wellspring of nourishment sustenance and recoveries from malnutrition and food scarcity. Alluding to it, mushrooms discover some help which can be developed even via landless individuals, that too on decaying material and could be a source for proteinaceous sustenance. Metric huge amounts of natural waste and buildups are created every year which can possibly be reused as a substrate for mushroom cultivation. Mushroom cultivation being an indoor movement, requires less work and benefit adventure gives abundant chances to jobless.

Different ways to exploit mushrooms: A review

“…Increasing population, desertification, and urbanization making this situation more severe. This problem is quite high in African countries and developing Asian countries (Pandey et al 2018). In 2009, Chief Scientific Advisor of the UK Government, Professor John Beddington, cautioned that increasing populations, declining energy reserves, and food deficiency would create a 'perfect storm' of food, water and energy scarcity by 2030 (The Guardian 2009; The Guardian 2011).…”

Tecnologic Development on Pleurotus Cultivation: Specific Practices Used in Brazil

“…Mushrooms have the highest protein production per area and time unit i.e. 100 times more than the conventional agriculture and animal husbandry through their indoor cultivation in vertical space [4]. In Brazil, Pleurotus is the most important; more than 7475 tons are harvested annually representing a 48% of the total production [5] among the most cultivated species and Pleurotus ostreatus var.…”

Molecular Identification of Mushroom Species in Italy: An Ongoing Project Aimed at Reinforcing the Control Measures of an Increasingly Appreciated Sustainable Food

“…The world population will reach an estimated 9.1 billion in 2050, which is 34 per cent higher than today [1]. Consequently, the world will have to produce 70% more food, and the demand for protein-rich food-such as meat, eggs and milk-will rise sharply.…”

“…This phenomenon caused a significant reduction of farmland, with negative environmental and social consequences, and the decrease of the economic efficiency of the agricultural sector has highlighted the need to develop new strategies to rehabilitate marginal and derelict lands [4]. Looking at all of these scenarios, agri-food supply chains should focus on other available supplementary resources to protect the masses from the malnutrition, contribute to the maintenance of the rural population, enhance the marginal land, and simultaneously safeguard the environment [1,5,6].…”

“…Mushroom cultivation can be viewed as an effective means to extract resources from agricultural solid recyclable waste; the most significant virtue connected to their cultivation is, in fact, that they can transform agricultural and other organic wastes into nutritious products. This waste bioconversion process is both part of an environmentally sound protection strategy and instrumental in helping to produce protein-rich food that, if properly exploited, may contribute to world sustenance and provide marketable products in impoverished areas [1,8,9]. In addition, they are currently appreciated as fat-and cholesterol-free, low-sodium foods, rich in important nutrients and antioxidants, and are considered to be excellent alternatives for vegetarian meals [5,10,11].…”