Specialty mushrooms: consumption, production and cultivation
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https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.1997.3.857Keywords:
mushrooms, consumption, production, cultivationAbstract
Diversification of the mushroom industry, in terms of number and quantity of mushroom species cultivated,
has accelerated world-wide during the 1980's and 1990's. Twenty years ago, 70 percent of the world 's
mushroom supply was Agaricus bisporus. By the mid 1990's Agaricus bisporus accounted for only 37
percent of the world supply. Lentinu/a edodes (shiitake) and Pleurorus spp. (oyster mushroom) accounted
for 16.8 and 16.3 percent, respectively, of the world's production in 1994. The People's Republic of China is
the major producer (2,640,900 t - or 54 percent of the total) of cultivated mushrooms. Production and
consumption of specialty mushrooms in the USA and other western countries is expected to increase at an
accelerated rate in the years to come. The development of improved technology to cultivate each species
more efficiently, will allow consumer prices to decline. As economies improve in Latin America, production
of specialty mushrooms could increase at an even faster rate than in the United States. The culinary
advantages offered by specialty mushrooms bode well for the continued growth and development of the
specialty mushroom industry worldwide
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