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Maximize Your Yield and Reduce Costs:

Professional development courses 16-18 September 2024

What participants said:

For whom is this course

This training is designed for commercial mushroom farm owners, farm managers, and harvesting coordinators. The program can also benefit HR specialists.

When

Course starts 16 September 2024

Where

The farm of Łukasz Łaziuk, Poland

How long

3 days on farm

Language

English, Ukrainian

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From an Expert with 15 Years of Experience Working with the Best Farms Worldwide.

Welcome to our course, where you will learn everything about the proper organization of the mushroom harvesting process. Discover how to optimize harvesting, increase yields, and motivate staff. All with the goal of minimizing costs and increasing your farm’s profitability.

Trainer

Lina Turovska

Program

DAY 1 Plan

Organization Harvest Department

Day to day work

Correct number harvesters, schedule and Harvest plan. Communication with sales team Work with the growing team.

Roles in department

What are these roles of management in Harvest Department and what are their duties, responsibilities and accountability.

Number of pickers

We will show you how to properly calculate number of harvesters to ensure you have effective scedule.

Harvest Supervisors

What is good for some, may be defaulter for other! Every mushroom farm is individual living organism, we will learn how to make exactly your farm successful.

Program

DAY 2 Plan

Harvest Strategy

Effective harvesters

We will explore what an effective harvester is and what characteristics a person must have to be one. How much time and what tests are needed to understand that a person fit to the role and will benefit the whole team.

Techniques picking

Here we will look at the principles of mushroom harvesting, which allow you to achieve a high yield and quality. At the same time providing a high speed of harvesting.

First break types

Going further, we will consider how to adapt the mushroom picking technique, depending on how the break looks like and what the task is set by the sales department.

Harvest strategy

How to build a system that doesn't depend on current situation and create good climate together with high efficiency

Program

DAY 3 Plan

Motivation system

KPI Harvest Manager

Without the right setting of goals and the right motivation, good results will not be achieved. In this block, we will consider what tasks are set for him and how to ensure Harvest Manager's motivation.

KPI Harvest Supervisor

Harvest Supervisor (HS) is the next in a line of individuals, without the right setting of goals and the right motivation, good results will not be achieved.

Bonus system

What is correct system of bonuses for Harvesting department. We will share with you the best practice from the best farms

Reporting system

What indicators should be calculated and what data have to be collected.

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Don’t just take our word for it

“I would highly recommend this course. I think it's very knowledgeable. I think it makes all the difference in the kilos that we can achieve. So I would highly recommend it. I think the number one thing for me is technique of harvesting”
Brendan Byrne | Ireland
Farm Owner
“I got more than I expected. I really learned a lot from the basic things and until the advanced knowledge. And I made a lot of friends in mushroom industry.”
Boey Tze Zhou | Malaysia
Farm Owner

George Kyriakides

Kyriakides Mushrooms, Cyprus

Paulius Pilipavicius

Baltic Champs, Lithuania

Dr Akilan Ramnathan

British Agro Products, India

Piotr Walczak

OKECHAMP S.A., Poland

Artur Kazmierczak

GS-Fresh, UK

Solvita Avotina

Codd Mushrooms, Ireland

Cristinel Olenici

McKenna farm, Ireland

Marta Hajduk

Hajduk, Poland

this course is happening with help from

Sponsors

Christiaens Group

Global leader in providing innovative solutions for mushroom farms and composting yards. They were also the first in the market to have all disciplines within the company, covering everything from engineering and construction to implementation and service.

Agro-Projects

Experts in the technologically advanced design of facilities for the industrial cultivation of mushrooms. The company helps new clients to design and build their mushroom farms and compost yards from scratch, and for clients already in the industry Agro-Projects offers many effective and modern technological solutions

GrowTime Engineering

GrowTime specializes in manufacturing durable & efficient picking lorries/trolleys for mushroom farms. Electric as well as hydraulic which, thanks to their solutions and high quality, increase the efficiency of harvesting and the profitability of mushroom farms. GrowTime also offers aluminum shelving, lighting, growing nets, scales, knives and other

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