Ashish Kumar*, Gopal Singh and Prashant Mishra
Department of Plant Pathology, SVPUA&T, Modipuram, Meerut
Received-01.10.2019, Revised-22.10.2019
Abstract: The study was undertaken to assess the effect of different casing ratio and thickness on yield parameters of both strains APK-2 and CI-9. Casing material consisting of Farm yard manure, Garden soil and Vermi Compost were tried with different ratio 3:2:1, 3:2:2 and 3:2:3. The casing ratio 3:2:1 resulted best for NOPF (11.67 and 12.67 days) and first harvesting (18.33 and 20.33 days) in strains APK-2 and CI-9 respectively. Maximum NOPF (58.67 and 60.33 per bag), NOFB (20.67 and 22.33 per bag) were showed in casing ratio 3:2:1 for both the strains APK-2 and CI-9. Maximum yield was harvested in casing ratio 3:2:3, 574.33 and 599.33 g/kg of dry substrate with 47.86 % and 49.94 % B.E., in strains APK-2 and CI-9, respectively. The casing thickness 1.25cm took least time to for pinhead formation (13.00 and 14.00 days) and for first harvesting (21.67 and 20.67 days), in strains APK-2 and CI-9, respectively. Also the casing thickness 1.25 resulted in maximum number of fruiting bodies harvested from (20.00 and 21.33) and maximum yield 619.67 and 636.33 g/kg of dry substrate with 51.63 % and 53.02 % B.E., from APK-2 and CI-9, respectively.
Keywords: Mushroom, Production, Crop, Laboratory
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