Current Status, Challenges and Prospects of Mushroom Industry in Nepal

Jay Kant Raut

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Current Status, Challenges and Prospects of Mushroom Industry in Nepal

Jay Kant Raut

Published in International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 4, Issue 4)

Received: 5 March 2019 Accepted: 12 April 2019 Published: 29 June 2019

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Abstract

This study attempts to analyze the current scenario of the mushroom enterprise in Nepal. The study provides insights on its future prospects as a major agro-industry. It also explores issues and challenges facing the Nepalese’s mushroom industry by using a critical and SWOT analysis. Though, Nepal has all the requisites of low-cost labor, favorable climatic conditions, plentiful cheap supply of raw substrates, spawns and other inputs to become a leading mushroom producer. The Nepalese mushroom industry is still in the state of infancy. The main challenges include inadequate scientific research on mushrooms; lack of adoption of improved technology, insufficient investment; unstable farm-gate prices and profit margins, poor supply and the increasing price of raw material e.g., rice straw; the poor quality of mushroom spawn, and the threat of diseases and pests attack. Several strategies are also presented here to improve the mushroom enterprise in Nepal.

Published in	International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 4, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijae.20190404.13
Page(s)	154-160
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Consumption, Fungi, High-Tech Industry, Production, Trade

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Faculty of Science, Nepal Academy of Science & Technology, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

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