Date:30/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/30/stories/2008103051200300.htm

Other States - Orissa

Training in mushroom cultivation

KORAPUT: Gadadhar Parida, District Collector, flagged off a team of 50 farmers who were on a mission to get training and exposure on mushroom cultivation .The farmers including some tribal women would visit the mushroom spawn making farm at Bhawanipatna apart from interacting with successful farmers cultivating paddy straw mushroom and Oister variety of mushroom in Dhenkanal, Salepur and Puri during their visit, Srinivas Pattnaik, Director, IAEET, said.