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Abstract: Even without any artificial inoculation, mushrooms have always been observed on different kinds of humid agricultural and forestry waste materials. Alas, our numerous slides can prove that still so many agricultural wastes are burned every year or left rotten in the field. What agreat invitation, especially in warm countries, to all mycologists to make more spawn for the inoculation of so many wastes with desired edible mushroom species! This waste survey was based on at least 275 authors reporting about some wastes being used for mushroom growing, this resulting in more than 200 kinds of wastes used up to the present either as a single substrate or in mixtures for edible mushroom production. In this regard, we have to consider the multilateral message of waste conversion into mushrooms in the following categories: 1. Provision of food. 2. Creation of jobs. 3. Enhancement of family income. 4. Control burning of wastes and curb global warming. 5. Lowering air pollution and CO2 level. 6. Cleaning the fields, road sides and forest margins. 7. Protection of the natural mushroom flora. 8. Forest fire prevention. 9. Spent mushroom substrates for garden compost and bioremediation purposes. Estimating a yearly world harvest of +6 milliard kg mushrooms for 6 milliard humans, the average yearly consumption of 1 kg mushrooms per head is an insufficient weapon against hunger. By a harmonious combination of limiting population by family planning and a mushroom minded use of field- and forestry wastes, the starvation and poverty can belong very soon tohistory.
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