Farm Level Efficiency and Input Utilization in Oyster Mushroom Cultivation: An Empirical Study of Nagaland

Introduction Chang and Miles1 states that mushrooms are a type of macrofungus that has the properties of a fruiting body that can either be hypogeous or epigeous. It is large enough to be seen with the naked eye and can be plucked by hand. With their nutritional, medicinal and pharmacological value, mushrooms have been of great scientific and industrial interest not only in the food industry but also in biopharmaceutical industries. The global diversity of mushrooms species is estimated about...