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The Solan mushroom ‘bank’ helping farmers grow empires, UP to Odisha

Farmers and entrepreneurs from across India flock to the ICAR-Directorate of Mushroom Research for training. One Maharashtra trainee went from Rs 10,000 a month to a Rs 75 crore turnover.

Scientists may have found antidote for world’s deadliest ‘death cap’ mushrooms — a medical dye

Chinese & Australian researchers' findings published in Nature. Death caps cause 90 per cent of mushroom poisoning fatalities across the world every year.

Punjab family beats paddy-wheat trend, earns Rs 50L profit growing mushrooms in 1.5 acre ‘AC farm’

An air-conditioned building near Amritsar contains the Randhawa family’s ‘progressive’ farm, where different varieties of mushrooms — button, shiitake, oyster, paddy straw — are grown.

Can lab-grown shiitake fight Vitamin D deficiency? Indian scientists plan human trials to find out

The trial will recruit at least 60 people, who will be divided into three groups of 20 each. It will be carried out for 4 to 6 weeks.

Mushrooms are the next big thing in the meat-free protein market

Mycoprotein, found by fermenting spores of mushrooms, has a meat-like structure that gives both a cost and texture advantage over plant-based proteins.

Scientists to help Sikkim farmers grow ‘Rs 3,000/kg’ mushroom variety with enhanced Vitamin D

CSIR scientists say three food-processing cluster centres will be set up in Sikkim, each cluster likely to empower 250 households by providing them additional income.

Handbags, hamburgers, bricks — how mushrooms can be the ultimate sustainable material

Easy to grow and fully biodegradable, mycelium could prove to be the ultimate green material for the future.

Mushrooms better than Modi’s ‘Taiwanese ones’: Because you’re worth it

If Modi was using mushrooms to get fairer skin, like Alpesh Thakor alleged, then he would be applying them on his face and not eating them.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.