By Roel Dreve EUROPE
ESSMI meeting in Zaltbommel
The members of the Hessische Landesfachgruppe Pilzanbau (HLP) met as such for the last time on September 12 and 13. Not because the group ceases to exist, but because of its transition into the successor, the European Society of the Specialty Mushroom Industry e.V. (ESSMI).
T Participants at the Van de Valk Hotel in Zaltbommel.
his time the location was the Van de Valk Hotel in Zaltbommel, The Netherlands, where the members meeting took place on September
12. This included a review of the HLP’s activities over the past year and the establishment of its successor, a small congress and group discussions. A company visit was also made, to CNC Exotic Mushrooms in Heerewaarden.
Danish roll carts in the production hall of CNC Exotic Mushrooms BV.
Members meeting At the board meeting in March 2023, goals were set and statutes formulated for the establishment of ESSMI, which was completed in Bad Essen on June 21, more about which in a moment. This year, an excursion by the HLP was also planned in Northern Germany, during which Pilzhof Lippe, Pilzland and Weisse Köpfe were visited. You could read about this in the previous issue of Mushroom Business. Members also discussed production and import statistics from recent years. Some figures (based on substrate producers who are members of HLP): In 2022, almost 10,000 tons of exotics were brought onto the market, of which approximately a third were oyster mushrooms, a third shiitake, and approximately 2,700 tons of Erengyii, plus some other specialty mushroom species. 5050 tons of exotics were grown in Germany (in 2021). According to Eurostat, fresh mushrooms other than Agaricus are mainly imported intra-Euro- pean. Most fresh, non-Agaricus species are imported into the EU from South Korea, around 2700 tons (in 2021), by far the largest share of this by the Netherlands (with Germany and France as a distant second and third). EU imports from South Korea have shown a declining trend
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