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INTRODUCTION

Kingdom: Fungi

Division: Basidiomycota

Class: Agaricomycetes

Order: Agaricales

Family: Pluteaceae

Genus: Volvariella

Species: V. volvacea

Mushroom Agroforestry Practical is one of the agroforestry systems where this is the combinations of forestry and agricultural. So, the classification of agroforestry systems for this mushroom agroforestry is agrisilvicultural system because this practical is combination of forest tree species and agricultural crops such as this mushroom.

This mushroom is Volvariella volvacea or paddy straw mushroom is from order Agaricales and it is have egg-shaped when young, then expanding to convex or broadly conic, and becoming broadly convex or nearly flat.

On 18th April 2018, all of the Agroforestry’s students were going to Sultan Idris Shah Forestry Education Center (SISFEC) at Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Puchong to do a mushroom agroforestry practical with Dr Sabiha and her students. We learn how to plant Volvariella volvacea on the empty fruit bunch beds with many steps that we need to follow it.

After three weeks on 23rd May 2018, all the student go to the SISFEC for harvesting the mushroom.