Mushroom Management System

Abstract

Mushroom cultivation faces significant challenges due to the absence of direct market access, limited real-time environmental monitoring, and inadequate technical guidance for small-scale farmers. This research presents the design and development of a digital platform that directly connects mushroom farmers with buyers, ensuring transparent pricing and reducing dependence on intermediaries. The proposed platform integrates a buy–sell marketplace along with real-time cultivation support, including temperature, humidity, CO?, and light condition monitoring through sensor-based alerts. When environmental parameters deviate from optimal ranges, farmers receive instant notifications, enabling timely corrective actions to safeguard crop yield. Additionally, the system provides scientific guidance on cultivation practices, disease identification, harvesting schedules, soil composition, and spawn quality through advisory and training modules. User-friendly dashboards and standardized data entry templates are incorporated to simplify farm management for both farmers and traders. The platform also facilitates the sale of mushroom seeds, ensuring access to quality inputs. By addressing issues of scalability, sustainability, and knowledge gaps, the proposed solution empowers mushroom farmers to adopt technology-driven practices, improve productivity, and expand market reach effectively.

Introduction

Mushroom cultivation offers high economic and nutritional value, yet small-scale farmers face persistent challenges such as limited access to buyers, dependence on intermediaries, income instability, and inadequate knowledge of optimal cultivation practices. Since mushroom growth is highly sensitive to environmental factors like temperature, humidity, CO? levels, and light, the absence of real-time monitoring tools often leads to crop losses and reduced yields. Existing solutions either focus narrowly on environmental monitoring or traditional marketplaces, lacking an integrated approach that combines cultivation support with direct market access.

To address these issues, the proposed research introduces a comprehensive digital mushroom management platform that integrates IoT-based environmental monitoring, scientific advisory services, and a direct buy–sell marketplace. The system enables farmers to monitor critical growth conditions in real time, receive instant alerts, access disease detection tips and harvesting schedules, and sell produce and high-quality mushroom seeds directly to buyers with transparent pricing.

The methodology involves requirement analysis through farmer surveys, modular system design, implementation using modern web technologies and IoT sensors, and rigorous testing with both farmers and buyers. The platform includes three core modules: a marketplace for direct sales, a farmer guidance module offering step-by-step cultivation and disease management support, and an IoT monitoring module that tracks environmental parameters continuously.

The literature review highlights that while IoT monitoring, AI-based disease detection, and digital marketplaces exist, they are often expensive, complex, or fragmented. A clear research gap is identified in the lack of a single, farmer-friendly platform that integrates monitoring, advisory services, and market connectivity specifically for mushroom farming.

The proposed system is significant in promoting precision agriculture, reducing crop losses, improving productivity, and enhancing farmer income stability. Its user-friendly dashboards, standardized data templates, and access to quality spawn simplify farm management and encourage technology adoption among small-scale farmers.

Future work includes integrating advanced sensors, automated environmental control systems, expert consultation services, mobile applications, secure payment and logistics features, and expanding support to multiple mushroom varieties and regions. Overall, the platform aims to empower small-scale mushroom farmers through smart, sustainable, and technology-driven agricultural practices.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2026 Srushti Indore, Suyash Mane, Yugandhar Savljakar, Vedant Daine, Omkar Sitapure, Mr. Shivansh Shukla. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.