Chennai :
Mushroom growers are now looking to the hills to
cultivate the crop rather than on plains due to the power crisis in the state.
Addressing a press conference Saptarishi Agro Industries
Ltd director Arvind Kalra said that his firm which has been one of the biggest mushroom
growers in Tamil Nadu has decided to move to the Hills of Nilgiris rather than
continue waiting for the power situation to improve.
He said that since the shortage of electricity from
November 2008 and moreover for the reason of unavailability of continuous power
from the TNEB, it has become unviable to grow button mushrooms in the plain
areas of Tamil Nadu.
The management identifies power unavailability as a major
threat to its production activities and hence it is unable to take production
from the existing facilities. The situation for a plentiful availability of
electricity in the state is likely to take considerable time.
Saptarishi is having its production facility near Chennai
in Kancheepuram District and has been supplying button mushrooms all over Tamil
Nadu, parts of Karnataka, Orissa, and to some extent Mumbai and Kolkata.
The company can
produce mushrooms if it has growing
facilities at an altitude of 4000 feet where
room temperature of 16 to 18 degree
Celsius can be maintained without
much difficulty for up to 10 months in a year. As such, the company is in the
process of implementing its decision to shift to the Nilgiris, he added.
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