ABOUT OUR PRODUCTS-MUSHROOMS

Mushrooms in Tanzania as many other countries is blessed with varieties of wild edible mushrooms.  Mushrooms gathering are done during the rainy season only and used as fresh or preserved them for future use, especially when vegetables are scarce.

Mushrooms gathering which are done mostly by women and children in rural areas has risks such as collecting poisonous species by mistakes, animal attacks such as snakes and a like; and due to increasingly environmental deterioration, most of mushrooms varieties are depleted.

The introduction of new technology on mushrooms cultivation helped many farmers in the world. Mushrooms cultivation creating health, employment, wealth and conserve environment.  People are now able to cultivate in whole year even in dry season, which minimized the risks associated with mushroom gathering, helped people to improve their household nutrition and generate income for their families, and protecting their environment by waste recycling.

 However, in Tanzania the mushrooms cultivation is a new sector facing many constraints such as; lack of skills to farmers, low quality and not widely available spawns, high production costs, few researches, and low consumption habit of mushrooms; all these challenges lead to low production, to the extent that Tanzania’s mushrooms market relay on imported mushrooms.

We produce high quality health mushrooms to meet a high demand in the market, and enthuses the community to consume and/or grow mushrooms due to nutritional benefits. Tanzania has tropical climate which is perfect for mushroom cultivation and they can be grown all year round, for creating employment, and wealth. We encourage community especially local women, men and young people in Tanzania to cultivate mushrooms on their own small piece of their land in urban and rural areas.

Through mushrooms cultivation we play our role in protecting environment through   waste disposal and recycling, our mushroom farms use and the public will be encouraged to use previously composted urban and rural wastes to produce mushrooms and the post mushrooms substrates will be used in growing fruits and other vegetables. 

To be continued.......!