This scheme is valid up to the year 2015. The main focus of the project is Training, Information dissemination, Technical and Financial assistance for preparation of culture/spawn cultivation, harvesting, storage, processing, packaging, marketing linkages with farmers to increase employment opportunities and generating income. The project will have the following activities:

1. Awareness generation, motivation, and involvement of farmers in cultivation of Mushrooms.
2. The Project should target at providing technical training to women, small, marginal and landless farmers, rural youth etc.
3. Providing technical and financial assistance to the farmers for developing Spawn/culture centers.
4. Information dissemination to the farmers, tribals about the market available for different varieties of Mushrooms. Identification and arrangement of suitable market for the collected produce.
5. Conducting meetings/ seminars/ workshops for providing common platform for farmers and marketers.
6. Documentation and publication of useful information concerning preparation of Spawn/culture, techniques of cultivation of various types of mushroom, their semi-processing and preservation, quality control packaging and marketing. 
7. Networking and collaboration among the various stakeholders dealing with Mushroom Cultivation and marketing.

There are certain criteria that need to be fulfilled for this scheme:

1. The mushroom farming activities will be extended to the farmers in general and small and marginal farmers in particular by eligible and competent voluntary organizations, who will provide technical and supervisory support to the farmers.
2. The project proposal should be short-term result oriented in nature, normally up to 1 to 2 years.

The mushroom farming activities will be extended to the farmers in general and small and marginal farmers in particular by eligible and competent voluntary organizations, who will provide technical and supervisory support to the farmers.

The project proposal should be short-term result oriented in nature, normally up to 1 to 2 years.

Contact

Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)
India Habitat Centre, Zone-V-A, 2nd Floor
Lodhi Road,
New Delhi-110 003.
Ph: 011-2464 2391, 2464 2393, 2464 2395
Fax: 011-2464 8607, 2462 5822
Email: capart@caparthq.delhi.nic.in