Jahangirnagar, Oct 15: A local botanist has grown a single cluster of wild edible mushroom weighing 50 kg which he claimed to be the largest in Asia.
Mohammad Anwar Hossain, a Ph.D Research Fellow under JU Botany department also the cultivator, has confirmed this at a press conference held at the JU Journalist Association office on Wednesday.
The mushroom was cultivated at his personal farm Ethno Agro Services, Pandhua Bazar, adjacent to Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus, Savar, Dhaka.
"The approximate weight of the produce in the single mushroom cluster was more than fifty kg."
"I could succeed to reproduce the mushroom fructification after maintaining its cultivation practices for more than one and a half years."
"I have collected the Giant mushroom Macrocybe gigantia (Massee) Pegler & Lodge from Balukhali, a remote area of Rangamati hill district in July, 2012." Anwar Hossain said.
He said, "We can produce large numbers of mushroom during the winter season but in summer no mushroom is produced in Bangladesh."
He also said the farmers can produce the mushroom commercially in summer enabling the people to get mushroom in all seasons.
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