Calls for better organisation of mushroom production

THE Agricultural Marketing Authority (Ama) says mushroom farming in Zimbabwe is not as well-organised as other agribusinesses, making it challenging to monitor crop production and marketing.

Mushroom cultivation has emerged as one of the nation’s fastest-growing home-based agro-business ventures. A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, usually produced above ground on soil or on its food source.

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