page_title: Fungiculture
section_title: Indoor Oyster Mushroom farming
hierarchical_section_title: Fungiculture / Techniques / Indoor Oyster Mushroom farming
caption_attribution_description: English: A local mushroom merchant from Pemberville selling his indoor grown mushrooms at the BGSU Eco Fair.
context_page_description: Fungiculture is the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi. By growing fungi, food, medicine, construction materials and other products can be attained. A mushroom farm is in the business of growing fungi.
  The word is also commonly used to refer to the practice of cultivating fungi by leafcutter ants, termites, ambrosia beetles, and marsh periwinkles.
context_section_description: Oyster mushroom farming is rapidly expanding around many parts of the world. Increased consciousness of its nutritional value and increased market demand is making mushroom cultivation one of the most sought businesses among the farming communities. Oyster mushroom is grown in substrate that comprises sterilized wheat or paddy straw and does not require much space compared to other crops. Its per unit production and profit extracted is comparatively higher than other crops.
caption: A merchant selling Oyster Mushrooms grown indoors.
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