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From Thursday to Saturday, 11-13th of May UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency organised Conference-Courses on the topic “Growing mushrooms on Phase 3”. For three days UMDIS`s grower taught mushroom producers and growers how to deal with compost, improve technology, maintain parameters, avoid diseases – and have the best mushrooms on Phase 3 compost.
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15.05.2023
Adrian Golovatei is one of the most cheerful and smiley mushroom producer that we ever have met. He is the owner of the mushroom farm Ciupercaria Golo near Mures, Romania. “Ciupercaria” means «mushroom» in Romanian, and “Golo” is the beginning of Adrian`s surname. The farm grows white button mushrooms and oyster mushrooms. Among 30 existing mushroom farms in this country – Adrian`s farm is medium in size – much smaller than two largest and much bigger than the smallest.
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06.05.2023
Hajduk company is one of the most prominent mushroom compost producers in Poland. And one of very few, that produces Phase 4 compost. Company History starts more than 30 years ago. In 1989 company was established and started to produce compost for mushrooms Phase I. In the nineties was the start of production of Phase II – pasteurized compost. Then followed Phase III – compost overgrown by mushroom spawn. After the year 2000 company build a new mushroom farm in Kotla and started to produce Phase IV compost with mushroom primordia. Then followed establishment of HAJDUK Mushroom Producers Group and the construction of a distribution center which is in charge of mushrooms distribution.
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03.05.2023
UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency having today the last day of our growing courses in Bulgaria. The trainer is Iurie Boiciuc. The courses are orgaised together with the Bulgarian compost producer BulComp Samsara. Iurie Boiciuc is one of the best consultants in Europe – during the courses he teaches how to improve yields, how to make generations properly, how to work with compost, how to organize the work on the farm correctly etc etc etc. In the courses participate 10 mushroom producers from Bulgaria. Want to sign up for the next Iurie Boiciuc courses? Just send the message to number +380935690941 (Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp).
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01.05.2023
Last week UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency thought our 4th Picking School in Poland. We teach how to pick 1,2,3rd flush mushrooms, how to make separation right, what is quality and how to make it the best. Also show step by step what to implement on your farm in picking to receive more kg per m2. The motivation system and organization skills as well.
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01.05.2023
In China, for 1 kilogram of shiitake, the producer gets 1 dollar 20 cents. In Europe – from $6 (and a kilogram of shiitake can cost over $16 in the supermarket). So, in China, the champignon producers get bigger margin – while in Europe, the shiitake producers. One log of substrate from Exotic Mushroom Center in Europe now costs $1.9 net, usualy producers get 06.-0.7 kg of mushrooms from a log.
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28.04.2023
In Romania 93% of mushrooms produced are button, and 7% are oyster mushroom. There are two largest button mushroom producers – Boglar Champ and Iazul V&V. And nearly ten smaller producers of button mushrooms, plus number of producers of oyster mushrooms.
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19.04.2023
In this video, Arpad Mutsy, director of BioFungi company in Hungary and Maksym Yenchenko discuss the importance of promoting mushrooms to the public, promotion initiatives, ideas. They note that the mushroom industry has effective communication within itself – but lack of communication with the wider public.
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17.04.2023
In the course program: 1. Correct organization of mushroom picking. 2. Functional duties of the pickers` leader. 3. Planning of picking process that helps you avoid picking at night and on weekends. 4. 1-2-3 flashes picking technique. 5. The speed of picking and what does it depend on.
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14.04.2023

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