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GERMANY New chairman at the BDC


The 65th Annual General Meeting of the Bund Deutscher Champignon- und Kulturpilzanbauer took place from 26 to 28 September in the Atlantic Hotel in Bremen, Germany. A notable fact was that Franz Schmaus passed on the gavel to a new chairman. By John Peeters


The programme has been unchanged for years. The proceedings are restricted to BDC members only from Thursday evening until 10 o’clock on Friday morning. Then everybody is welcome to attend the public part of the programme, which traditionally features lectures, a party and a farm walk on Saturday. After the members only programme, it appeared that an internal change had been made. The new chair- man of the BDC, Michael Schattenberg from Pilzhof Walhausen, opened the public part of the sessions. This automatically meant that a chairman had handed over office to a successor. Franz Schmaus, who has oc- cupied this post for many years, had stepped down and at the same time been appointed honorary chairman. Michael Böging was elected to deputise for the chair- man, and as this meant the treasurer’s chair was vacant, Marco Deckers was appointed to take over these duties. Mr Schulz from the Duitse Verband Gartenbau (an umbrella organisation for the German horticultu- ral sector) had travelled to the meeting especially to award Schmaus a badge of honour in recognition of his honorary chairmanship. In his speech he talked about Schmaus’ achievements for the BDC. “His life has al- ways been devoted to mushroom growing in Germany. He was already well-known for his advisory work in the Rhineland before he started his own farm in Limeshain. He is the driving force that motivated the BDC to take steps in the field of market integration and advertising, which resulted in higher consumption of mushrooms


in Germany.” In appreciation of all his hard work, Mr Schulz presented Schmaus with a travel token. Franz Schmaus then thanked everyone for their support in the past years.


Gesunde Pilze and China One of the steps taken by the BDC in recent years has been to raise the profile of German mushrooms, through the www.gesunde-pilze.de website, and in other ways too. Michel Legrand from the Gruenes Medienhaus gave more details in the first presenta- tion. “The website is a huge success. In 2011 we had 19 visitors a day to the site, and from 377 in 2012, numbers have risen to clock up 701 visitors a day in 2013. We are also active on YouTube. As an example, the clips of how to prepare the recipes have already been watched 56,000 times. In addition, 106 articles were published in national publications in 2012, reaching a potential readership of 7 million people. So things really are progressing in the right direction.”


The next speaker was Ulrich Groos from the HLP in the state of Hesse. Groos: “The HLP visited China from 10 to 20 May on a study trip. What an amazing country, and full of contrasts. There is the old China, with its traditions and culture, where mushroom growing and consumption is very important. The production me- thods are very old fashioned, with lots of manual labour. And then there is the new China, with its skyscrapers


Franz Schmaus is honoured. From left to right Schattenberg, Schmaus, Wink- hoff and Schulz.


Andreas Wohlers from OM Pilze and his family are thanked for their hospitality.


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