I left a bright fortune behind so that I could do something for the people,” says a young and talented Bhopalite Pranay Singh. Pranay being a commerce student switched to Mycology a stream of biology and did a miraculous innovation in mushroom cultivation by producing domestic mushroom cultivation plant. Hailing from Bhopal Pranay is planning to continue this stream not as a hobby but as a profession.
He told The Pioneer, “I did my graduation in commerce and then I switched to biology stream just with a dream that I want to do something different something for the society.” Elaborating further, he informed, “as a private trainee I worked under the supervision of Director Rajesh Saxena at Prof. T.S.Murthy Station of Science and Technology of Madya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology. It is one of the great opportunities to work with Rajesh Saxena and I also received support of Bhagvan Das Yadav.”
“The main objective of the exercise on low cost mushroom production is to present a small scale viable bankable model production unit through adoption of appropriate technology, utilisation of resources and suitable market strategy,” Pranay said. He further added, “another main objective for opting this experiment is to generate beneficial employments for people in the rural areas, people with low literacy level or even unemployed youngsters can go through this technique and can generate self employment with a very less investment with a very less investment and a good return.”
As Pranay talked about his invention, he said, “literally at starting I thought it would be too boring when I took admission for Mushroom cultivation at T.S.Murthy Station of Science and Technology because no one was curious to teach us and because almost faculty was on leave. Then I thought all my savings are at loss but after I began working on it and I discussed with Rajesh Saxena he allowed me to take the training as I want.” Mushrooms have a great market today and Pranay believing in his dreams created the domestic mushroom cultivation plant which would be really helpful for the people looking for employment. He signed off saying, “this one is for those who are struggling to make their future.”