Mushroom price per kg in India
What the grower is paid
₹120
What a delivery app charges
₹180–₹250
A household pays roughly 1.8× what the grower receives. That gap is packing, cold chain, delivery and margin — none of which reaches the farm. It is the single most common reason a mushroom business plan built on shop prices fails.
This figure has not been refreshed recently. It was true on 4 September 2026 and we have not taken a newer reading since. Treat it as indicative rather than current.
Standing figure: about ₹12,00,000 turnover a month across 10,000 kg, blended over wholesale and direct sales. Not a spot reading for this week.
Cross-check: the only mandis in India that report mushroom
Modal wholesale price per kg. Both markets trade small volumes, so single days move sharply — read the shape, not any one point. A break in a line is a stretch of more than 10 days when that market reported no trade at all.
| Market | Date | Range | Modal | Arrivals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pune APMC Maharashtra | 7 October 2026 | ₹100–₹180 | ₹140 | 5 qtl |
| Jalandhar City Punjab | 7 October 2026 | ₹60–₹110 | ₹80 | 9 qtl |
Note the spread: ₹80 against ₹140 for the same crop on the same days. Mushroom has no national price, and a grower in one state has little idea what one in another is getting.
Published by the Maharashtra board and Punjab board. Wholesale rates at individual markets on thin volumes, not farmgate realisations. Agmarknet carries no mushroom commodity at all; these two state boards run their own masters and do. Volumes here are small enough that one lot moves the modal, so read them as a sanity check on our own figure rather than as a market you could sell into.
| Which price | Per kg | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| What a grower is paid | ₹120 | Our own realisation, blended across wholesale and direct sales. This is the number to build a plan on. |
| Wholesale / mandi | ₹80–₹140 | What a trader pays at volume. Sell only here and the margin is thin. |
| Retail shelf | ₹180–₹250 | What a shop or app charges a household. A grower does not receive this. |
Three different prices, and only one of them is yours
Almost every argument about what mushrooms are “worth” is really two people quoting different numbers at each other. A household paying ₹220 for 200 g on a delivery app and a grower being offered ₹90 by a trader are both describing the same mushroom truthfully. The table above separates them, because a business plan built on the shop price fails immediately and a business plan built on the mandi price gives up too early.
The figure that matters if you are growing is the middle one: your blended realisation, across everything you sold, after whatever the buyer deducted. It is the only price that has any bearing on whether the unit pays.
What we charge for each mushroom
Everything above is an observation — what a grower was paid, what a shop asked. This is the other kind of number: our own list price, which we set. It is the one figure on this page we control, so it is the one you can hold us to.
| Mushroom | Our price | What kind of number this is |
|---|---|---|
| Button MushroomAgaricus bisporus · immature, white | ₹150 | Our list price, set 9 September 2026. Cross-checked against the mandi series above, which reports mushroom undifferentiated. |
| Crimini MushroomAgaricus bisporus · mature, brown | ₹300 | Our list price, set 9 September 2026. No mandi in India publishes a rate for this — there is nothing to check it against. |
| Portobello MushroomAgaricus bisporus · fully mature, open cap | ₹400 | Our list price, set 9 September 2026. No mandi in India publishes a rate for this — there is nothing to check it against. |
Button, Crimini, Portobello are the same organism, Agaricus bisporus, picked at different ages. The cap darkens and opens, the flavour concentrates, and the price multiplies by about 2.7× — for a mushroom that spent longer in the same room. That spread is maturity and demand, not a different crop.
Shiitake Mushroom: in preparation, not yet on sale. We are not quoting a figure until it is, because the last one we set is out of date.
Oyster Mushroom: discontinued. We no longer grow it, so any figure you find for it elsewhere on the web is out of date.
These are our own list prices, published by us and updated when we change them — not market observations. For what an independent market reports, see the mandi cross-check above; for what a grower actually realises, see the figure at the top of this page.
Why there is no daily mandi rate for mushrooms
If you have gone looking for a mushroom rate the way you would for onions or potatoes, you will have found nothing, and it is not because you were looking in the wrong place.
We checked the government’s own daily mandi feed — the data.gov.in resource behind Agmarknet — on 4 September 2026. It was live and had been updated that morning with 9,489 records. Filtering it by commodity:
| Commodity | Rows that day |
|---|---|
| Green Peas | 1,048 |
| Onion | 446 |
| Potato | 348 |
| Cauliflower | 185 |
| Mushroom | 0 |
Zero, under every spelling we tried. The filter demonstrably works, so the absence is real: mushrooms barely pass through APMC mandis at all. They move through direct supply to hotels, retailers and households, and through contract arrangements that are never reported anywhere.
Which is the honest reason this page exists. There is no public feed for anyone to republish, so the only trustworthy mushroom price in India is one that somebody who actually sells mushrooms is willing to publish about their own sales. That is what the figure at the top is.
What moves the price you get
- Who you sell to. The single biggest factor, larger than crop quality. Direct customers, hotels and retailers pay multiples of what a mandi trader pays.
- Season. Button mushroom supply peaks in the north Indian winter and prices soften with it; the shoulder months pay better. See our guide to the mushroom season.
- Consistency. A buyer paying a premium is buying reliability. Supplying twice and then failing is worse than never starting, and it resets your price.
- Shelf life. Fresh mushrooms sell in about two days. Cold chain and packaging protect the price far more than they cost.
- Grade. Uniform, unopened caps command a premium; a mixed crate is priced at its worst mushroom.
Using this number in a plan
If you are working out whether a unit pays, take the realised figure above rather than a retail band, apply your own expected split between direct and wholesale sales, and allow for roughly 10% crop loss. Our cost and profit page works the full arithmetic from this same figure, and the calculator on the homepage lets you substitute your own.
A blunt check worth doing before you build anything: at ₹80 per kg wholesale, a small unit does not clear its costs. If the only buyer within reach is a mandi trader, the plan needs solving before the room does.
Frequently asked questions
What is the price of mushrooms per kg in India?
It depends entirely on which price you mean, and conflating them is the most common mistake in this whole subject. A shop or delivery app charges a household roughly ₹180–250 per kg for button mushrooms. A trader buying at volume pays a grower far less, commonly ₹80–140. Our own farm realises about ₹120 per kg blended across wholesale and direct sales, and that is the figure a grower should plan against.
Why is there no daily mandi rate for mushrooms?
Because mushrooms barely trade through APMC mandis. We checked the government's own daily mandi feed on 4 September 2026 — the data.gov.in resource behind Agmarknet, live and updated that morning with 9,489 records — and mushroom returned zero rows under every spelling, while Green Peas returned 1,048, Onion 446 and Potato 348. Mushrooms move through direct and contract sales instead, which is exactly why a grower's own realisation is the only reliable number available.
How much do farmers get for 1 kg of mushrooms?
Less than the shelf price, and the gap is distribution rather than greed. On our unit the blended realisation is about ₹120 per kg. A grower selling everything to a trader may see ₹80–100; one who has built direct customers can approach retail. The difference between those two outcomes is usually larger than any difference in how well the crop was grown.
Is mushroom farming profitable at these prices?
At ₹120 per kg on a well-run unit, yes, with a net margin near a third after all expenses. At ₹80 per kg wholesale, a small unit may not cover its costs at all. That is why the selling side deserves as much planning as the growing side. Our cost and profit page works the full arithmetic from this same figure.
How often is this page updated?
Whenever we take a new reading. Every figure on the page carries the date it was true and says what kind of number it is — a monthly average or a spot reading for that week. We would rather show you an honestly dated older figure than a fresh-looking invented one.
The data behind this page
India publishes no national mushroom price. Agmarknet carries no mushroom commodity at all, so no APMC mandi can report one, and every dataset built on that feed returns nothing. The series below is assembled from the two state boards that keep their own commodity masters, alongside our own farm’s realisation. As far as we know it is the only continuous mushroom price series for India that exists.
It is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Take it, chart it, quote it in a report. The only condition is that you credit it with a link.
117 mandi observations from 9 May 2026 to 7 October 2026, rebuilt nightly.
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