The final goal of each mushroom grower is to obtain a maximally big crop of mushrooms of excellent quality with minimal expenses. The success of his work depends on many factors: the preparation of high quality compost, maintaining a corresponding climate during the mushroom cultivation process, taking measures to eliminate pests and diseases which can cause a great damage to the crop. It’s important to reveal the first signs of mushroom pests and diseases in time, and take measures to control them.

Here, we bring a short description of a few most frequent mushroom pests and diseases and their control measures.