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POLAND Euromycel conference in a Fr
On 18 April 2013, Euromycel held a successful conference on various mushroom related issues for Polish and fo- reign participants in Przygon, a small town located not far from Lodz in central Poland. The objective was to present some current issues to Polish, Dutch and French partici- pants and create an information exchange platform and promote discussions.
By Katarzyna Bieniecka-Drzymała
The conference venue was a brand new hotel, Kolum- napark. The owners of Mykogen, Joanna and Piotr Szmytko, proudly hosted the event and together with Euromycel were responsible for the excellent organisa- tion and the convivial French atmosphere. The meeting was attended by over 80 people, with the majority being Polish mushroom producers. The conference started with a welcome speech from Ryszard Gnus and Frédéric Mathieu, both representatives of the organising company Euromycel (Bonduelle Group). The organisers welcomed the speakers, numerous par- ticipants and media representatives. Warm words were also directed to the President of the Polish Mushroom Association, Krystian Szudyga who was then asked for his opening speech.
Poland and the world He started with a short history lesson by reminding everyone about the very beginnings of mushroom pro- duction in French caves. A different approach was ta- ken in Poland, where the many small, family-run farms
Participants at the conference in Przygon.
adopted Dutch rather than French cultivation methods. Despite these common roots, we are now witnessing an occurrence that resembles a commercial war between our countries- which makes it difficult to speak about the sector’s perspectives. Later on, Szudyga attempted to answer the question of whether the industry is still in crisis. However, an analy- sis of the global market - consumption still growing in Asia, increasingly more modern facilities and still rela- tively high prices - 5 euro per kg in Shanghai; Australia where everyone is convinced of the health beneficial properties of mushrooms and in fact buys them; the USA with rather outdated production methods but a lot of attention devoted to packaging and how mushrooms are presented in the sales chain - concluded that the sector is still steaming ahead. How different to the situ- ation in Europe, where according to the CNC president the best producer gets the worst price and the sector is struggling with affairs. One of the positive European developments mentioned was the completion of the white mushroom genome, which will surely contribute to research development. Problems in Poland include the mass production of mushrooms with less and less attention paid to quality and some negative media exposure - dishes with mushrooms were recently shown as being the least healthy Polish lunch dishes. Frédéric Mathieu, Directeur Operationnel of Euromycel held the next presentation which gave an overview of the still expanding Euromycel group. After presenting the company’s history and the latest developments and plans (see MB55), he handed over to the mycelium expert, head of the Euromycel R&D department, Ives Moriamez. He gave a fascinating lecture on spawn pro- duction, especially on the experiments with modern synthetic spawn, new 15 l bags and casing inoculum. Both presentations were simultaneously interpreted into Polish by Mathieu’s assistant.
Mr Szydyga (r), talking to Frédéric Mathieu (middle).
Image problems The Euromycel presentation was followed by a very dynamic lecture by Filip Piotrowski on state-of-the-art technical solutions for mushroom and compost produ-
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