According to research, over 2300 identified species of fungi have edible and medicinal value which significantly contributed to the global need of human food and medicine.

Hence, to embark on the growing state of globalization, the growing interest for cultivating edible fungi plunged to supplement, or replace, the wild harvest of edible fungi. The idea came up after discovering its nutritional value and at the same, its potential in generating income through trade.

However, most people in the community were unaware of the nutritional and medicinal benefits of edible fungi, they preferred to cultivate mushrooms instead. Cultivating mushrooms has been known all over the world and over 200 genera of macrfungi containing species were beneficial to people.

In the Philippines, especially in Bukidnon, the most common cultured mushrooms are the straw mushroom (Volvariella volvaceae), oyster mushroom (Pleurotus sp.), and milky mushroom (Calocybe indica).