Mushroom farming and production is a very important emerging crops industry. It contributes significantly to food security programmes especially to the recurrent droughts, for it is independent of seasons or climate conditions. Through the commonly employed indoors farming technology, farmers are able to regulate the micro-climate conditions suitable for each mushroom at every growing stage.

-Requires little labor, space and investment thus ensuring a farmer high profit returns, over a short period of time on minimum investment.
-Have high protein, mineral and vitamin content and hence an excellent food for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It is valuable to the aged, children and the sick. It has important medicinal values.

The challenge am currently facing is to service my orders due to lack of enough capacity to sustain supply cycles.ANYONE OUT THERE INTERESTED?

What varieties are you growing?

The key to great success in this venture is the truffle. Even better is the Perigord black truffle. If you can figure out how to set up a successful truffle farm in Kenya, using what you already know about growing buttons, that would bring a great return on investment.

There are companies such as Truffle Tree that sell trees that have truffles already growing in them, but they are expensive considering how many you would need for a farm. Maybe you can get one or two, then do research to figure out how to replicate the process locally.

If you can figure out how to "infect" oak or blue gum trees with the truffles, you could be sitting on a "black gold" mine. The demand for your product would be international and unending, as fresh truffles are always loved, but are always in short supply.

Best,

Hill

not a greenhouse.
mine is a stone walled house.

Ok,where are you doing this and how long do the buttons take to be ready for harvesting?