President
Mushroom Club
Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months
An unique social organization working in the field of Edible Mushrooms & its commercial exploitation, Plant Bio-Diversity, Agri Projects, Training & Education.
• Projects undertaken: Bee Keeping, Dairy, Mushroom, Organic Fertilizer, Nursery, Food Processing, etc.
• Fruit Farm: Coconut, Mango, Fig, Lemon, Papaya, Grape, Ginger, Banana, etc.
• Unique Projects: Water Pond for Buffalo Ride, Larry Da, Herbal Fencing, Rapid Oxidization Plant (underway), etc.
• Successfully implemented rain water harvesting schemes (MGREGS) like Shet Tal (Farm Pond), Vihir Punarbharan (Well water refill) & Vihir Gaal Kadhane (Clean up well).
• Rajvan organizes: Hurda (Tender jowar) party during December-January; Summer camp for the school children during April-May; hosts Picnic party every year.
• Farmers training on agriculture allied business.
Taral is an Import Export company established mainly to help rural farmers for exporting their produce & stop selling to the traders at a throw away prices.
Total Farm & Spawn Lab design along with Air Handling Units, Machineries design & installation. Compost making, Mushroom growing & Spawn preparation techniques, resourcing quality raw material, putting right people in right place, etc.
Complete Business/Project Set-up carried out under my supervision during my India Visit from China.
A 100% EOU Company engaged in natural Honey Business. Plant capacity is 10 MT per day (Processing, Packing & Export)
Managing overall production related operations - Quality control, composting, casing, growing, harvesting/picking & packing. Developed satellite farms under Low Cost Growing (LCG) mushrooms. Also developed technique & prepared good quality organic manure out of spent compost in collaboration with local small scale industry.
Spawn Lab design, Production & its Marketing of Himalayan Mushrooms, Kathmandu : A typical Low Cost Growing Button Mushroom Unit & a state of art Spawn Lab. (Hi-Tech) with the capacity of 15 MT Spawn PM.
Total quality control & quality assurance of all incoming raw materials & outgoing fresh & processed mushrooms. Post harvest management, vacuum cooling & export market.
Analysis & quality control of all incoming raw materials, conducting daily production meeting, daily total farm inspection, Spawn production & its market sale, mushroom packing quality, etc.
Thesis: Studies in the genus Phellinus (Quel.) from Maharashtra. "Phellinus" is a medicinal mushroom (fungus), cause severe diseases to the plants mainly heart wood, therefore commonly known as Heart Rot Fungi. Following sudies were carried out during research tenure - Taxonomy : Survey, collection & preservation of ‘Phellinus’ species from different forest areas of Maharashtra. Identification techniques, naming, describing & illustrating, etc. Exploring forests for macro-fungi. Culture Study : Laboratory techniques pertaining to fungal cultures. General culture methods of macro-fungi etc. Ethnomycology : Medicinal properties of fungi especially from Phellinus, Ganoderma, Fomes, etc. Authentic uses of an Ayurvedic medicine, ‘Phansomba’ as a folk medicine in northern part of Maharashtra. Publications : 1) Vaidya, J.G., and A.S. Rabba, 1993 : “Fungi in Folk Medicine” The Mycologist, 7 (3) : 131 - 133 2) Rabba, A.S. and Vaidya, J.G. 1993 : “Bracket Fungi” School Science 31 : 24-26 3) Rabba, A.S. and Vaidya J.G. 1994 : “Do Fungi require Special Conservation?” Invention Intelligence. 29(1) : 418-419. 4) Rabba, A.S., Vaidya, J.G. and M.K. Nanda. 1994 : The genus Phellinus from Bhimashankar forest. Biologia Indica 5 : 47-56. 5) Vaidya, J.G. and A.S. Rabba, 1995 : Wood Decaying Fungi : Role in the Forest Ecosystem. Advances in Plant Sciences, 8 (2). 6) Vaidya, J.G., and A.S. Rabba, 1993 “Valid names for some common Indian Wood Rotting Polypores, their synonyms and Authenticity - II”. J. of Indian Academy of Wood Sciences 24 : 35-58. 7) Vaidya J.G., Nanda, M.K., and Rabba, A.S. 1992 : Community and Substratum Composition for Wood - Rotting Aphyllophorales from Bhimashankar, The Western Ghats Proceedings of the Sixth Engineering Congress for Transdisciplinary premises of Ecology and Environment pp. III 2-15, Institute of Engineers, Pune, India. Training / Seminar / Workshop Undergone : 1) In Pune University, Department of Botany, a Seminar held on “Modern Trends in Botany” during 21-24th February 1992. Paper presented on the “Study of some interesting Wood-Rotting Aphyllophorales from Bhimashankar”. 2) In Pune Engineering College, 6th Engineering Congress for “Transdisciplinary premises ecology & environment” during 22-24th December 1992 organized by Institute of Engineers, India Paper presented on “Community & Substratum Composition for Wood-Rotting Aphyllopharales from Bhimashankar, The Western Ghats. 3) In M.S. University, Baroda, 79th Indian Science Congress held in January 1992. Paper on “Systematic Studies in the Genus Phellinus Quel. from Maharashtra” presented. 4) In Pune, International Convention on Ayurveda & Botany held in F.C. College during 9th & 10th November 1992 organized by ‘Vishwa Ayurved Sammelan’ (Maharashtra Branch), Pune. Paper presented on “Wood Rotting Fungi of Medicinal value belonging to folk medicine - Phansamba”. 5) In Goa University, 80th Indian Science Congress Association held in January 1993. Paper on the genus Phellinus from Bhimashankar forest” presented. 6) In Agharkar Research Institute (formerly as MACS), Pune, Workshop held on Ethnobotany on 20th February 1993, Paper presented on “Folk medicines from fungi” Articles : Rabba Aravinda S. 1992 : “Phansamba” Sanchar (Marathi) P2 (12th August 1992). Rabba Aravinda S. 1994 : “Phansamba” Vishusht Fungus” Sanyukta Karnataka (Kannada) P-4 (1st May 1994).
M.Sc. Botany (Mycology), Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1990) - First Class
B.Sc. Botany, Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1988) - First Class Agro-based Expertise: • Science & Art of Mushroom Cultivation/Growing: Raw materials procurement, Processing & Operations of Compost making viz. Selective Compost, Block composting, Liquid composting, & Product quality assurance. • Spawn (mushroom seed) technology: Raw materials, Preparation, Spawn laboratory set-up. • Supply Chain of Agro-based Products (viz. Mushrooms): Spawn making; raw materials procurement; Pre-processing and Cultivation; Quality; Storage; Packaging; Transport; Marketing, etc. (Cradle-to-Grave, Life Cycle Management of Mushrooms) • Developing Mushroom satellite farming & spent compost management. • Developed various mushroom Bi-products & conducted Training to the PCMC's women Self Help Groups (SHGs) • Agri-business Development: Agri-Tourism centers, Bio Fertilizer Projects, Water stress Management in Plants & Crops, Rapid oxidization in plants, etc. • Agro-based Projects: Bee keeping, Quail Farming, Spirulina, Milky mushrooms & its Marketing. • Zero budget Farming.
