Technological aspects of Agaricus blazei Murrill mushroom culture

Current and future climate changes make specialists find new sources of food for the ever-growing population. Obtaining edible mushrooms throughout the year in intensive mushrooming is one of the possibilities to provide some of the population's food.In addition to their food value, the mushrooms are also a cost-effective crop, which ensures high production, which is obtained on the surface unit used, in spaces arranged for this purpose. It is also worth noting that the cultivation of mushrooms does not use agricultural land. The advantages of a mushroom culture are many, both economic, occupational, medicinal, and reconversion of ligno-cellulosic waste.Worldwide, specialists are looking for new products from different plants as well as mushrooms, containing vitamins, minerals, enzymes that improve people's health. Viewed from this point of view, mushrooms are a food of high nutritional value, containing essential amino acids in the structure of complex proteins, and some species also have really therapeutic and medicinal virtues.