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Button Mushroom Growing Course

This 4-day workshop will be conducted at a large mushroom farm in UAE in English, Russian and Arabic. The program is specifically designed for commercial mushroom farm growers. During the course, participants will learn about the key elements of mushroom cultivation technology, enabling high yields with excellent product quality. The training is tailored for growers, farm managers, and harvesting managers of commercial mushroom farms.

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20251020

4 days

United Arab Emirates

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Who should attend?

Whether you are starting from scratch or optimizing an existing farm.

Growers

Our experts will explain and demonstrate modern cultivation techniques used by commercial farms to achieve high yields of quality mushrooms.

Farm Owners

Discover how improvements in the growing process can boost your company’s profitability and crop quality.

Farm Managers

Learn how to manage your team in a way that increases yields, improves quality, and reduces costs.

Investors

Understand the requirements of a modern commercial farm, investment levels, and key technological factors before launching.

Course Curriculum

Day 1

Filling the Room & Watering

9:00 — Meeting at the farm, opening, introduction, and program overview.
9:30 — Initial farm walk to observe the current setup.
10:15 — Classroom session: Filling the room properly. Compost characteristics, casing structure, proper casing application, actions after filling, calcium, and supplements.
11:15 — Growing room session: Practical discussion of casing soil and compost.
12:30 — Lunch break.
13:00 — Classroom session: Watering and Case Run. Managing climate parameters during watering, preparing casing and compost to achieve high yields, and mycelium recovery (stop phase).
14:30 — Growing room session: Practical case run phase observation.
16:00 — Day summary and wrap-up.

Day 2

Cooldown & Pinheading Stage

8:30 — Growing room session: Observation of casing soil structure, and how to create it.
9:00 — Classroom session: Brief resume on filling.
9:20 — Classroom session: Transition to cooldown and pinning phase. Managing climate parameters, pinning with CO₂, temperature, and humidity, and creating mushroom generations.
10:20 — Growing room session: Practical cooldown pinning check. Identifying mycelium appearance, dew, and stimulation techniques.
12:00 — Lunch break.
12:30 — Classroom session: Pinheading stage. Climate parameters, compost behavior, preparing rooms for the first flush, watering before flush, and yield quality.
13:30 — Growing room session: Direct inspection of pinheading stage.
15:00 — Classroom session: Managing the first flush, climate parameters, yield quality, generations, and when watering over the first flush is safe.
16:00 — Day summary.

Day 3

Second Flush & Harvesting

8:30 — Classroom session: Action plan after the first flush. How to create a strong second flush by managing climate, watering, and compost behavior.
10:00 — Growing room session: Transition from first to second flush. Identifying what the second flush should look like.
11:00 — Classroom session: Managing the second flush and transitioning to the third flush.
12:30 — Lunch break.
13:30 — Hands-on session directly in the growing rooms.
16:00 — Day recap.

Day 4

Harvesting, Hygiene & Course Wrap-up

9:00 — Classroom session: The most important harvesting techniques. Managing separation and mastering graze picking.
11:00 — Classroom session: Farm hygiene and disease prevention.
12:00 — Classroom session: Final course summary, discussion, and open Q&A.
13:00 — Diplomas and Certificate Ceremony, followed by lunch.
13:30 — Final farm walk.
15:00 — Course closing.

Meet Your Instructor

Iurie Boiciuc

International Mushroom Growing Consultant

Iurie has 20+ years of hands-on experience, helping over 50 button mushroom farms globally to optimize climate control, watering, filling machines, and yield efficiency.

20+ Years Experience

50+ Farms Launched

Venue & Accommodation

Themar Al Emarat Mushroom Farm

Modern Commercial Farm

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The largest modern mushroom farm in the UAE, producing up to 10 tons of mushrooms per day. The facility operates on substrate supplied from the Netherlands.

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Ibis Styles Dragon Mart Dubai

Recommended Accommodation

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Comfortable and convenient stay option for course participants.

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Watch our testimonials

I will gladly recommend this course so that everyone can participate and benefit from it. I learned a lot, like motivating pickers, managing mushrooms on the shelves, and growing them better with lower costs.

Kacper Szymański

Hadjuk Farm

UMDIS courses offer a wealth of valuable information, useful both for beginners and for experienced mushroom farmers. They provide practical insights, clear explanations, and real‑world techniques that help growers improve their results at any stage of their journey.

Sriniv PUTTUSWAMY

Chile, with a population of around 18 million people, consumes approximately 1,000 tons of mushrooms every month. Everything that is grown in the country is sold locally. During the UMDIS courses, I learned modern mushroom‑growing technologies that I will now be able to implement on my own farm.