Russian Mushroom Output Growth

No, these are regular farmed mushrooms, champignons de Paris and other cultivated varieties, not magic mushrooms or wild mushrooms.

As it was reported today by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Russia ranks third in mushroom production in Europe after the Netherlands and Poland, with the gross harvest amounting to 152 thousand tons in 2023, writes.

According to Daniil Kozlov, head of the external environment monitoring department at the Center for Agroanalytics of the Ministry of Agriculture, Russia currently produces more than 1 kg of cultivated mushrooms per person per year. This is less than in some EU states, the USA and Australia, where production and consumption is at the level of 1.5-2.5 kg of champignons per person, and 20 times less than in China, compared Alexander Khrenov, CEO of the School of Mushroom Growing. However, five years ago, this figure for Russia was only hundreds of grams, because Russian consumers prefer wild mushrooms and have traditionally viewed cultivated farm mushrooms with suspicion.

There are now opportunities for export of fresh cultivated mushrooms as well as dried mushrooms from Russia.

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