MEETING
Polish industry stays optimistic
The 15th Pieczarkalia, the biggest trade show in the Polish mushroom industry, attracted many producers and suppliers again in June. This time, many discussions revolved around the Russian export embargo and
the challenges it poses for the Polish branch. By Katarzyna Bieniecka-Drzymała
T
he city of Siedlce, hosting the event, is undisputable the heart of the Polish mushroom industry, having even its own postgradual studies at the innovative highschool called Collegium Masovia – ‘Economics and organization of edible mushroom production’.
The 15th edition of the Pieczarkalia trade fair and conference took place on the 18-19th June and the venue was again the city stadium of Siedlce. The keywords of the event were: sales, strategy, quality and vision. The trade show and conference began with the usual official part and the welcoming letter of the Polish Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Marek Sawicki followed by short speeches of the authorities of the region. They all said their warm words of welcome to the exhibitors
and guests, and stressed in their speeches the importance of the polish mushroom branch, keeping the leading European position when we think of the volume of mushrooms being produced (more than 300 thousand tons).
‘Slight overheating’
The participants of Pieczarkalia received an especially warm welcome from the head of the Polish Mushroom Grower’s Association (SBGU) dr Krystian Szudyga, who talked about the diffi- cult first half of the year because of the Russian embargo being imposed on the Polish fresh mushroom sector. “When we imagine that a great deal of the mushroom industry infra- structure in eastern Poland was built especially for serving the mushroom export to Russia, we can easily talk about a slight ‘overheating’ of
At the conference: Jan Gielen (r), talking to Krystian Szudyga. On the left, Daniel Karmelita (Spyra).
The Polish celebrity chef Marcin Budynek with his assistant during a cooking show, promoting brown mushrooms.
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