Weed Extract:Cheap Source for Better Yield and Biological Efficiency of Pleurotus florida

In recent years the mushroom technology has traveled far a head. The domestication of various mushroom species has been tried globally. Many of which are now commercially cultivated for food as well as medicinal purposes for an amateur and professional cultivator. The production of mushroom has become important factor, which does not promote the growers. The important priority of profession is to maximize the production of mushroom by using various techniques. Extract of certain weeds, viz., Argemone maxicana, Cannabis sativa, Ageratum conyzoides, Parthenium hysterophorus and Calotropis procera were tested for better production of oyster mushroom Pleurotus Florida. Among these Parthenium hysterophorus (977 g, 97.7%), Cannabis sativa (882 g, 88.2%), Ageratum conyzoides (860 g, 86.0%) extract were proved most significant in terms of yield and biological efficiency of mushroom.