India grows five mushrooms on a commercial scale, and each one wants a different temperature, a different food and a different level of skill. Choose by biology and season, not by which one shows the highest price online.
- By the end you can name the five main cultivated mushrooms of India with their Hindi names.
- By the end you can read each species' spawn-run and fruiting temperature band from the DMR table.
- By the end you can explain why button needs compost while oyster, milky and paddy straw grow on treated straw.
- By the end you can say which species suit the plains, the hills and the coast, and in which months.

