On October 6-8 the city of Odessa hosted the second inteational conference-exhibition “Ukrainian mushroom industry: the path to stability.” The conference was attended by 291 people from 15 countries. Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, Georgia, Italy, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Turkey, France the representatives of these countries came to the conference-exhibition to share their experience, to gain new knowledge, and probably discover Ukraine for themselves.
The first day of the conference program was filled with professional presentations of specialists, each of whom, in spite of the time constraints, sought to tell much more than originally was planned. The second day of the conference, so to speak divided the listeners according to specialization , thus forums for mushroom growers growing oyster and other exotic mushrooms took place, as well as forum for those involved in the process of mushroom cultivation. An expanded meeting of the Association of mushroom producers in Ukraine took place. Presentations of the speakers of the 1st and 2nd days are available for viewing here and here.
Both two days of lectures of the conference were accompanied by a specialized exhibition, where 30 companies from Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and France introduced the latest know-how of the world mushroom business and Ukrainian technologies. The final chord of the two days of active work during the conference-exhibition was the gala dinner in the “Renaissance” banquet hall. During the gala dinner was held the award ceremony for Sponsors of the conference and exhibition namely companies Mikogen-Ukraine, Amycel, Italspawn, Alpi, Air System, Agro Projects, Veres, Mir Solomy, Dalsem, Hoving Holland. “For contribution to the development of the mushroom industry in Ukraine” diplomas were awarded to such mushroom farms like: Borovik, VKZ, Heleka-M, Griko, Grikar A.P.S., Dinbo, RIO Champignon, Ukrainian champingnons. Next, the third inteational conference will be held in 2018.
Source: UMDIS
