The first pilot major mushroom house in Czechoslovakia was founded in Gottwaldov in 1948. The first modern mushroom farm, since 1965 having used a 3-zone system of cultivation in trayes, was built in Babice in South Moravia. The production of the cultivated mushrooms [Agaricus bisporus (Lg.) Sing, and A. bitorquis (Quél.) Sacc.] in Czechoslovakia has been low so far (1300 T), however, new growing plants with larger production capacity are under construction. The development of edible fungi production was stimulated by research results gained in the Institute of Microbiology (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences), in the Mycological Station and other institutes where physiology and ecology of cultivated fungi [Agaricus spp., Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq. ex Fr.) Kummer etc.] and various problems of applied research are studied.
Staněk M. (1978): Thirty years of mushroom cultivation and cultivated edible fungi research in Czechoslovakia. – Česká Mykologie 32(2): 65–69.
