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International Mushroom Days happened in China on 21st-23rd of March 2023. The event was many times postponed due to Covid – and finally the took place. – It was great, many companies in China attended, and some oversea clients also, – tells UMDIS one of our Chinese friends, Alex Lyu from Kingfit, the supplier of equipment.
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11.04.2023
There is a global trend visible also in Hungary that large mushroom farms expand – and many smaller ones (including those in caves, popular for Hungary) leaving the market. In the Budapest area, there are mushroom farms located in caves that were created because the stones from there were used to build the city itself. Mushrooms were grown in many of such caves for years. Currently, the profitability of such mushroom farms is declining and they by degrees close.
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10.04.2023
This video features an interview with Mario Rodriguez Gandia, the owner of Champi Graja, a farm situated in Spain that produces white mushrooms. Mario, along with his two brothers, produces around 50-52 tons of mushrooms, and their main market is the fresh market in Spain.
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08.04.2023
Last year, the market of exotic mushrooms in Europe grew few procent, – says Piotr Rubacha, sells manager of the Exotic Mushroom Center, the largest Polish company producing shiitake. It is European subsidiary company of Qihebiotech, a biggest Chinese producer of substrate for the cultivation of exotic mushrooms- especially shiitake.
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31.03.2023
UMDIS Mushroom Information Agency has published the reviews from the last Mushroom Picking School in Poland. The school was made for Spanish mushroom producers. So the reviews are in Spanish. Turn on the subtitles and select English to see the translations 😊
15 minutes read
27.03.2023
– Spain is the third country in Europe in the production of mushrooms, – Pedro Garcia Fajardo, Amycel’s representative in Spain, told us. – It grows 120,000 tons of mushrooms a year. Somewhere half of the production is concentrated in the South, and the second half in the North of the country.
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23.03.2023
Maksym Yenchenko, the representative of Amycel and UMDIS Director spoke with Lukasz Jasinski about new strain Exxcalibur. Listen the whole interview on UMDIS website.
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21.03.2023
Yurii Malanyk’s mushroom farm is located in the Lviv region in the West of Ukraine and has been operating since 2009. It has 12 growing rooms with 18 tons of compost loading. The official name of the company is SOVITA PLUS. The director there is Yurii’s wife, Ms. Maryana. She is very supportive of her husband, deals with papers, accounting, and document flow with supermarkets. She joined the business a year ago.
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16.03.2023
Csaba Hajdu as an Amycel representative tells UMDIS about mushroom business in the Balkan countries: Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
15 minutes read
15.03.2023

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