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MUSHROOM Apicol Final 280417
MUSHROOM Apicol Final 280417
ON
MUSHROOM & SPAWN PRODUCTION UNIT
(With an Investment of Rs. 20,00,000/-)
Mushrooms have long been appreciated due to their taste, delicacy as well as nutritional and medicinal
properties. They are the answer to the protein malnutrition and save for the food as well as economic
security of people. Availability of healthy and quality spawn (mushroom seed) is an important factor for
successful mushroom cultivation. Preparation of spawn is a sophisticated scientific process which requires a
specially constructed laboratory housing some equipment, furniture, glassware, chemicals and accessories.
The required training on spawn production is given by OUAT, Bhubaneswar. The spawn unit set up in a
particular place can carter to the needs of the mushroom growers in a cluster of villages in the locality. The
Spawn production unit should also have a mushroom growing unit of its own to test the yield potential of its
own spawn as well as to demonstrate the cultivation technology to the aspiring growers.
OBJECTIVE-
1. To produce 25000 no. of spawn( each spawn bottle- 200 g) per month @ 1000/day assuming 25
working days in a month
2. To generate an income of Rs. 1,19,000/- per month (Rs. 50,000/- per month from sale of spawn +
Rs. 69,167/- from sale of mushroom)
Anteroom
11'
Inoculation Incubation
Chamber Chamber Media Room
1. Autoclave- To sterilize the media in culture tubes and wheat medium in spawn bottle
2. Laminar Air flow machine- For maintaining aseptic/ germ free condition inside inoculation
chamber
3. Refrigerator- To keep the cultures and media for longer period. Fresh mushroomS can also be
stored
4. Furniture- Iron racks for keeping spawn bottles, Table with stools
5. Accessories-
Weighing balance- for weighing chemicals
LPG stove with cylinder- To boil wheat and to prepare culture media
6. Glassware and chemicals-
Culture tubes- Borosil make culture tubes required to raise and maintain pure mushroom
cultures
Glass bottles- used as containers of mushroom spawn. Alternatively heat resistant
polypropylene bottles/ pouches can be used
Measuring cylinder- used for measuring water during media preparation
Inoculation needle- required to transfer mushroom mycelia to culture tubes and spawn substrate
Plastic baskets- Heat resistant plastic baskets/ wire baskets are used to keep the media containing culture
tubes inside autoclave for sterilization
Dextrose-used for preparation of PDA, a medium for culturing the mushroom mycelia
Agar-agar- Prepared from see weeds, it is used for solidifying the PDA medium
Formaldehyde- Used for fumigation of inoculation and incubation chambers to maintain germ free condition
Rectified spirit- Tu fuel the spirit lamp and sterilizarion og inoculation needle and hands
Calcium carbonate- used for mixing in the boiled wheat grains to increase alkalinity in the culture medium
Wheat- used as a base material for mushroom spawn
Non- absorbent cotton- used to plug the mouth of the spawn container
Butter paper and rubber band- the mouth of spawn bottle is wrapped with butter paper and tightly secured by
the rubber band
Glass marking pencil-used to mark the mushroom species, date of preparation of spawn on the bottle
ACTION PLAN
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1. The project can be set up either from personal fund or by the fund from any financial
agency
2. Construction of the building should be completed within six months with electricity
connection and water supply
3. Purchase of equipment and machineries with required accessories along with the raw
materials are to be purchased within one month after completion of the civil work
4. The entrepreneur must be trained on Mushroom Spawn Production at Tropical Mushroom
Research and Training, Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, OUAT,
Bhubaneswar- 751003
5. Spawn production will start after setting up the spawn unit and purchase of required
materials
BUDGET
A. FIXED COST FOR SPAWN UNIT
13 Furniture- 15,000
Iron racks 4
Table (long) 1
14 Utensils 9,500
Big dekchi 4
Small dekchi2 2
Big spoon 4
TOTAL 11,00,000
12 Electricity 10,000
13 Misc 4.670
14 TOTAL 2,00,000
8 TOTAL 6,00,000
B. RECURRING COST
6 TOTAL 1,00,000
Economics:
Particulars Year
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sale of spawn 270000 290000 315000 330000 350000 375000 400000
Sale of paddy straw
mushroom 180000 190000 200000 215000 230000 245000 260000
Total 450000 480000 515000 545000 580000 620000 660000
Glass bottles for spawn 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000
Non-absorbent cotton for
25000 bottle 17500 18000 18000 18500 19000 19500 20000
Paddy straw 42,000 41000 41500 42000 40000 41000 40000
Spawn 18,000 18000 18000 18500 18500 19000 19000
Gram powder(Besan) 15,000 15500 15500 16000 16500 17000 17000
Labour 34,000 34500 35000 35000 35500 36000 37000
Wheat grains for 25000 94,500
bottles 94500 95000 95000 95500 95500 96000
Calcium carbonate @ 20 1,350
g/kg of wheat 1300 1300 1350 1400 1400 1350
Butter paper for 25,000 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050 1,050
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
NPW 11686.85
The BEP and DSCR of Spawn and Mushroom units are calculated separately which are given below.
Repayment Schedule
Year Loan Outstanding Gross surplus Interest Principal Total repayment Surplus