[Reader-list] Encouraging Mushroom Cultivation to Counter Nutrition Insecurity

[Kabir Khan]

Encouraging Mushroom Cultivation to Counter Nutrition Insecurity
<http://wastenarratives.com/2015/11/03/encouraging-mushroom-cultivation-to-counter-nutrition-insecurity/>

*Sowbhagya & Chethan C.N. (originally written in Kannada), translated in
English by Malleshwari Baddela*

Rising prices of pulses and meat have impacted the poor significantly.
Waste-pickers with little income are left to fend themselves against the
high costs of food. Even within waste-pickers, the migrant community
members (from other states) are worst off. They have no formal linkage with
public distribution system- thus, nothing nutritious and filling left in
their diet. Many of the children of migrant waste-pickers are identified
with malnutrition and protein deficiency.

Seven years back, an experiment of growing oyster mushrooms to counter
malnutrition and protein deficiency was done in Amravati district of
Maharashtra. It didn’t succeed for many different reasons including the
absence of relevant subsidies etc. The idea of countering malnutrition and
protein deficiency by oyster mushroom cultivation stayed in the head of
Nalini Shekar, founder of Hasiru Dala. She wanted to do something around it
for a long time. Continued here...
<http://wastenarratives.com/2015/11/03/encouraging-mushroom-cultivation-to-counter-nutrition-insecurity/>

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