About Lesson
Significances or importance of mushrooms in poverty Alleviation
- It can be labor intensive. Thus, the activity can generate job opportunities, especially in less developed countries of mountain regions. The land is one of the limiting factors in most agriculture, but mushroom cultivation requires less space.
- It is a relatively fast-growing organism, so fast economic return can be obtained.
- High economic return can be obtained by its cultivation.
- It has been used as human food from immemorial and can supply protein immediately.
- It can convert lignocellulosic waste material into a wide diversity of products which have multibeneficial effects on human beings.
