Mushroom Cultivation training at Mangan Nagar Panchayat office

DIKCHU, 06 Oct: A training programme on mushroom cultivation was organized by the Mangan Nagar Panchayat under the SJSRY scheme here on Saturday. The programme was attended by the MNP president and all councilors.
The training was conducted by Deputy Project Director, ATMA, North Sikkim, TN. Bhutia, as the resource person and was taken by around 35 trainees selected from BPL families of Mangan.
Free Mushroom spawns, water spray bottles, local paddy straw and HN bags were handed over to all trainees after the session.

Upper Suldung’s poisonous mushroom dinner toll ends at five

GANGTOK, 13 June: Three of the five, two of them minors, admitted at CRH, Tadong, after they consumed poisonous mushrooms and developed complications, have died due to multiple organ failure, confirms the Medical Superintendent, Dr. BK Kanungo.
With this the death toll from one dinner of poisonous mushroom goes up to 5 persons, which include the father who was undergoing treatment at Namchi District Hospital and died on 1 June and the 8- year- old daughter who passed away the same night the family of six and a friend of the children had consumed the poisonous mushrooms which was on 29 May.