Author: Bihar Say | Amrita | “From Kitchen Corners to ₹36 Lakh Success: How a Bihar Housewife Built Tulsi Spawn Lab From Scratch!” From Home Cook to Mushroom
“From Kitchen Corners to ₹36 Lakh Success: How a Bihar Housewife Built Tulsi Spawn Lab From Scratch!”
Who says success needs a Silicon Valley office? Sometimes, it starts with a single grow bag in a Bihar home.
In 2021, Rama Kumari—a BCom graduate and homemaker from Muzaffarpur—turned her love for mushrooms into a business that now generates ₹36 lakh annually. What began as a pandemic experiment has now grown into Tulsi Spawn Lab, Muzaffarpur’s first mushroom spawn production unit.
Rama and her husband had spent years living in Pune, where mushroom-based dishes often made their way to their dinner table. But when COVID-19 sent them back to Bihar in 2020, their plates—and lives—felt incomplete. Quality mushrooms weren’t available anywhere around.
Rather than accept it, Rama took charge. She read articles, watched YouTube videos, and took a chance. She spent ₹120 on 1 kg of oyster mushroom spawn and filled five small bags. That first batch produced 12 kg of mushrooms—enough to feed her curiosity and spark a dream.
Not one to stop at a single success, Rama reached out to Manorama Singh, a local expert in mushroom cultivation. With a modest ₹25,000 investment, she converted a space in her home into a grow room. Her winter 2021 harvest? A whopping 200 kg of button mushrooms. She earned ₹40,000 from that batch alone.
Encouraged by these results, Rama decided to level up.
In 2022, Rama and her husband enrolled at PUSA University for formal training in mushroom spawn production. The couple then risked it all. They invested ₹16 lakh—their entire savings—to set up a mushroom spawn lab in a compact 10×12 ft space. That bold move gave birth to Tulsi Spawn Lab—Muzaffarpur’s first-ever facility of its kind.
Today, the lab not only supplies spawn to mushroom farmers across Bihar but also helps train women who wish to become agri-entrepreneurs.
From a homemaker to a full-time entrepreneur, Rama Kumari’s journey breaks stereotypes and opens doors. She’s living proof that women in Bihar are not waiting for opportunities—they are growing them. One spore at a time.
She didn’t just grow mushrooms—she grew possibilities.
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