Post-harvest management in mushroom production: An effective approach towards sustainability, food security and storage

Abstract

Growing mushrooms has the ability to provide nutritional security and helps to reduce hunger, poverty, and malnutrition. Current agriculture situation and food production systems are under tremendous pressure from factors such as global climate change, soil and water scarcity, soil degradation, and increasing population etc. These factors threaten food and nutritional security on a regional and global scale. Additionally, improper handling of agro-industrial waste and the Crop residue burning have a harmful impact on the environment and public health. Growing mushrooms has the ability to provide nutritional security while also reducing hunger, poverty, and malnutrition. Around the world, people utilize mushrooms-a highly nutritious food-as a tonic, medication, and dietary supplement. Mushrooms are grown on lignocellulose substrates, which include crop residue, processed waste, horticultural waste, sawdust, and wood chips. As a result, high-quality food is produced from poor-quality and poor-value waste resources through mushroom farming. In this review paper, we discuss about the mushrooms current status, its production, post-harvest management using different process (physical, chemical, Thermal) and future aspects.