The young boy noticed that while he struggled for eight-nine hours a day to earn just over ?5,000 a month, farmers from surrounding villages bought compost bags from his employer and earned much more growing mushrooms. That set him thinking about starting a mushroom unit and he began saving money for it.

In 2001, aged 21, he invested over ?13,000 to construct a kuchha shed in a 400 sqft area for mushroom cultivation. In the very first year he earned ?33,000 and never looked back. Today, his annual income exceeds ?7 lakh. In fact, nearly every household in Shamlaich, located a few kilometres from the Directorate of Mushroom Research in Solan, today has a mushroom unit and farm incomes have greatly multiplied................Read more

Source web page: BusinessLine