Significances or importance of mushroom in the poverty alleviation

• It can be labor intensive. Thus, the activity can generate job opportunity especially in less developed countries of mountain region.
• Land is the one of the limiting factors in most of the agriculture, but mushroom cultivation requires less space.
• It is relatively fast-growing organism, so fast economic return can be obtained.
• High economic return can be obtained by its cultivation.
• It has been used as human food from immemorial and can supply protein immediately.
• It can convert lignocellulosic waste material into a wide diversity of products which have multibeneficial effect on human beings.