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The National Centre for Mushroom Research and Training (NCMRT) was established in 1983 under the aegis of Indian Council of Agricultural Research on the recommendations of National Seminar on Research, Production, Processing and Marketing of Mushrooms organised by ICAR on January 21-22, 1979.  The seminar was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister, Sh. Morarji Desai and presided over by Sh. Surjit Singh Barnala, the then Union Minister of Agriculture & Irrigation. The NCMRT and AICRP were sanctioned on 23 rd October, 1982 and started functioning in 8 th June, 1983.  It was formerly inaugurated on 21 st June, 1987 by Dr. G.S. Dhillon the then Union Minister of Agriculture, Govt. of India. This Centre was renamed as National Research Centre for Mushroom in 1997 and upgraded to Directorate of Mushroom Research in December 2008.  This Directorate is the only organization exclusively dedicated to mushroom research and development in the country.  The Directorate has developed array of technologies for different types of mushrooms suitable for cultivation in various agro-climatic regions of the country. The Directorate is also the Headquarter of All India Coordinated Research Project on Mushroom with 14 Coordinating and 2 Cooperating Centres located in fifteen states.  AICRP on Mushroom came into existence during VI Five-Year Plan on 01.04.1983. The Director, DMR, Solan (HP) also functions as the Project Coordinator of the project.