Mushroom Farming Company in India

Start by choosing the mushroom type (button for volume and price, oyster for low capex), then take 3-5 days of hands-on training, secure land with three-phase power and water (about 0.4 acre for two rooms and a compost unit on our layout), and decide whether to buy Phase-III compost or build your own compost unit. Next comes a DPR for bank finance or subsidy, the grow-room build with racks and climate machinery, and a trial cycle under supervision. Most successful growers in India come from non-farming backgrounds.

Button mushroom is the most profitable at commercial scale and makes up most of India's production. Our cost model plans on ₹120/kg farm gate, and a well-run climate-controlled room gives 18-22 kg per m² of bed over three flushes — about 2 kg a bag. Oyster mushroom costs far less to start but sells for less, while milky mushroom suits hot regions. Medicinal mushrooms such as reishi and cordyceps carry the highest margins but need a buyer lined up before you build.

Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha and Telangana lead Indian mushroom production. With climate-controlled PUF grow rooms, mushroom farming is viable in every state year-round — location mainly changes power cost, compost raw-material cost and market distance, not feasibility.

On MushroomFarming.in (mushroomfarming.in), the free learning platform MushroomWale runs jointly with the ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research, Solan. Its Mushroom University has 6 schools, 13 courses and 86 lessons — each with objectives, sourced numbers, a diagram or photo, a task for your own farm and self-check questions — plus a crop-problem check and a temperature tool, in English and Hindi. It is education, not a certificate: DMR is the joint educational partner and does not approve individual guides or commercial projects.

On MushroomBazaar (mushroombazaar.com), the free marketplace MushroomWale runs jointly with the ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research, Solan. Growers post stock, buying requirements and harvest forecasts, and search a researched directory of 94 mushroom buyers across 19 states — retail chains, processors, mandis, hotels and brands, each entry showing the public source it came from. There is no commission, no listing fee and no paid ranking: buyer and grower agree the price between themselves. Local mandis, wholesalers, hotels and processors remain the other routes to market.

MushroomWale's quotation for two 18×40 ft rooms is ₹16.0 lakh in core scope (PUF panels, Daikin cooling, air handling), or ₹22.2 lakh with 7-tier MS racks and additional works — ex-GST, ₹26.2 lakh with 18% GST. A 20 T compost unit adds ₹6.5 lakh of equipment, and its civil work (₹8-10 lakh) is in your scope. A single 18×70 ft room is ₹11.9–17.4 lakh ex-GST. Land, building, civil works and working capital are extra and depend on your site.

Yes. The smallest room we quote is 18×30 ft — 1,000 bags, about 2,000 kg per 60-day crop — at ₹6.6–9.0 lakh ex-GST. An 18×40 ft room (1,600 bags, about 3,200 kg per crop) is ₹8.6–11.7 lakh ex-GST. With one room the harvest comes in one block each crop; a second room filled a month later gives buyers steady daily supply.

Yes. Under the MIDH Operational Guidelines 2025 a private grower receives 40% of the cost norm as a credit-linked subsidy: up to ₹12 lakh on a mushroom production unit (₹30 lakh norm) and ₹12 lakh on a compost unit — 50% (₹15 lakh each) in North-Eastern and Himalayan states and Scheduled Areas. NHB instead pays on installed capacity above 50 MT, at 35% (45% in those areas). One project takes MIDH or NHB, not both. NABARD pays no subsidy: it refinances the bank loan. PMFME (35%, up to ₹10 lakh) is for value addition such as drying and packaging, not grow rooms. We prepare the DPR and bank papers; the sourced breakdown is on our subsidy page.

On our cost model — ₹120/kg farm gate, 6 crops a year, production cost ₹73.6/kg with your own compost — two 18×40 ft rooms with a 20 T compost unit (quotation ₹33.8 lakh incl. GST) earn about ₹17.8 lakh a year after production costs, which repays the quotation in about 23 months. On bought-in compost (₹94.4/kg) the two rooms alone (₹26.2 lakh incl. GST) earn about ₹9.8 lakh a year: about 32 months. Civil works, land, working capital and loan interest are not in these figures and lengthen the payback.

Farm-gate prices move with season, city and grade; our cost model plans on ₹120/kg. Prices are usually higher in summer (April-July) when supply is lower, and hotels, restaurants and retail chains pay above the mandi. A cold room lets you hold stock for a better day. For what mandis actually reported today, MushroomBazaar publishes a free daily price board (mushroombazaar.com/prices) sourced from Agmarknet via data.gov.in, state by state.

An 18×70 ft room gives about 6,000 kg per 60-day crop — 100 kg a day averaged across the crop. At ₹120/kg that is about ₹3.6 lakh of sales a month; after production cost on bought-in compost (₹94.4/kg) the room clears about ₹76,800 a month. Two rooms filled a month apart turn the harvest into steady daily supply.

On the Design my Project layout, two 18×40 ft rooms with a 20 T compost unit need about 16,400 sq ft (0.4 acre): the rooms and corridor, the bunkers, tunnel and wetting slab, the straw store, casing yard and office, plus a 15% allowance for access. Ten rooms with a 30 T unit need about 0.6 acre, so an acre leaves room to grow. Allow more for a cold room, setbacks and truck turning.

Connected load per room, from our design tables: 6.1 kW for 18×30, 8.55 kW for 18×40, 11 kW for 18×60 and 14.55 kW for 18×70 ft (cooling plus fans and lights). A compost unit adds 15 kW, so two 18×40 rooms and a compost unit need about 32.1 kW. Electricity runs about ₹11 per kg of mushroom in our cost model, roughly ₹18,000 a month for an 18×40 room. Three-phase supply is mandatory, and a backup generator is recommended.

No prior experience is required. We provide comprehensive training covering all aspects—compost preparation, spawn management, climate control, harvesting, and disease management. Training duration is 3-5 days. Post-setup, we provide ongoing technical support via WhatsApp and phone. Most successful farmers come from non-agricultural backgrounds.

Button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) need a different climate at each stage: spawn run at 22-24°C air and 90-95% humidity, case run at 24-25°C and 92-95%, and cropping at 16-18°C, 85-90% humidity (never above 92%) and CO₂ under 1,000 ppm. Unlike oyster mushrooms, button mushrooms are highly sensitive to these shifts. Without proper climate control you'll face crop failures, low yields and disease outbreaks.

Yes, but buy only Phase-II compost that has been pasteurised and conditioned (ammonia under 10 ppm), never Phase-I alone. Bought compost costs about ₹12-14 per kg in our cost model against ₹8-10 for your own, which is why production cost comes to ₹94.4 per kg of mushroom on bought compost and ₹73.6 on your own. For larger farms, your own compost unit also gives quality control and steady supply all year.

About 60 days in the room: filling and spawning (1-2 days) → spawn run of about 14 days (12-16) → casing and a 7-10 day case run → airing down to 17-18°C over 24-48 hours, with pins 5-7 days later → first harvest 18-21 days after casing, then three flushes 7-10 days apart (roughly 50%, 30% and 20% of the crop) → clean-out and cook-out. That gives 6 crops a year.

MushroomWale (a brand of Agrimotion Engineering Private Limited) designs and builds turnkey mushroom farms in India — climate-controlled grow rooms, Phase-I & Phase-II compost units, PUF panel construction, Daikin/Carrier refrigeration, MS racks, spawn labs, cold storage and processing units — and provides bankable DPRs, subsidy assistance and training across all Indian states.

Yes. We prepare bankable Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) compliant with NABARD, NHB, MIDH, and PMEGP requirements, and assist with subsidy applications across all 36 Indian states and UTs.

There is no single national figure, and any page quoting one is guessing. The norm, the ceiling and the category bonus all change by scheme and by state. MIDH pays a share of fixed cost norms; NHB prices an integrated unit by capacity instead and pays a share of that; a project uses one of the two, not both. NABARD pays no mushroom subsidy at all — it refinances the bank that lends to you. MushroomWale publishes the full register at https://subsidy.mushroomwale.com: 44 scheme records, 8 central and 36 state and union territory, 42 of them verified against a primary government document, every published rate tied to the clause it comes from and archived under its SHA-256. Where a document has not been read end to end, no rate is published.

Yes. MushroomWale offers a 15-module hands-on training curriculum covering composting, spawn production, casing, cropping, harvesting, post-harvest handling, climate control, and farm economics — based on ICAR-DMR Solan and NRCM Solan protocols.

MushroomWale is based at 90-91, Aroan Road, NH-19, Opp. Praveen Resort, Sirsaganj, Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh (PIN 283151). We design, supply and install across all Indian states. Contact: +91 75799 97333 / +91 84396 56800 / +91 75995 43434.

PPGL (Pre-Painted Galvalume) PUF panels — never PPGI — with 80 mm external and 60 mm common walls; Daikin (default) or Carrier refrigeration sized room by room; air handling with fresh-air and CO₂ dampers; and 7-tier MS angle racks with wire jali. Every item is named on the quotation with its brand, model and size.