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Economic miracle in Łosice. They won by growing mushrooms

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The region and town of Łosice, although located in one of the poorest regions of Poland, is developing extremely dynamically. Unemployment there dropped from 16 percent up to 4 percent All thanks to growing mushrooms.The Łosice commune is located in the Masovian Voivodeship, right on the border with Belarus . Even though it is a large voivodeship, this region is not rich. Not so long ago, unemployment there was 16 percent, but investments in agriculture allowed for an economic miracle – informs portalsamorzadowy.pl.They learned how to grow mushrooms in the Netherlands. Now they’re back

Even though the region is systematically depopulated, Łosice is one of the most dynamically developing communes in Poland. What is the reason for this impressive success? In reducing unemployment to 4%. farms growing mushrooms and poultry helped . It was they who fueled the development of the commune – we read on the website.

Now in the Łosice commune there is one of the largest mushroom growing farm in Europe – Głuchowski Group. ” It employs over 350 people and produces 1.3 thousand tons of mushrooms per month , a large part of which is exported,” reports portalsamorzadowy.pl.Mayor Mariusz Kucewicz reminds that years ago, residents of the commune went to the Netherlands to learn how to grow mushrooms. Now – he adds – Europe comes to Łosice to look for news in the industry.

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[quote]It has developed so much that there were not enough inhabitants of our commune to provide this industry with enough employees. Before the pandemic, over 1,000 Ukrainians worked for us, today we also have employees from Asia and Africa – adds the mayor in an interview with the portal.[/quote]Other companies that operate dynamically in the commune are Wokas and Laktopol . The first of them started by extracting peat, and today it supplies the so-called casing soil 60 percent mushroom cultivation in Poland. The second company is a dairy that produces 3,000. liters of UHT milk per hour and 80 tons of butter per day – we read on the website.

Łosice is experiencing a housing boom

The development of agriculture and the decline in unemployment led to the development of other economic industries: services, trade, transport and construction. According to the portal, in the last decade, buildings with a total area of ​​600,000 m2 were built in the commune. m, but as much as 450 thousand of them m2 is allocated to buildings closely related to agricultural activities .

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