Other Fresh Mushrooms insights

Vologda Oblast has exported a 14-ton batch of chaga (birch mushroom), representatives of the regional Rosselkhoznadzor said. This time, entrepreneurs have established cooperation with Vietnamese businessmen.

[Reporter Young-gyu Cho, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] This year’s pine mushroom production is experiencing difficulties. This is because the high temperature this summer continued until mid-September, which slowed the growth of pine mushrooms. Compared to previous years, the full-scale pine mushroom harvesting season has been delayed by about two weeks, which is causing growing concerns among pine mushroom farmers. Although pine mushroom production has been increasing slightly since mid-September as the daytime temperature has been below 25℃, it is expected that it will be difficult to overcome the previous year’s level. This year’s pine mushroom production is not going smoothly. According to the status of pine mushroom auctions by the National Forestry Cooperatives Federation, as of September 30, the forestry cooperatives selling pine mushrooms are Gangwon

The mushroom season has begun in central Russia. In connection with this, several leading media outlets reminded fans of the quiet hunt about last year's federal government decree, which introduced serious penalties for collecting some endangered mushrooms - fines of up to 1 million rubles and imprisonment for up to four years. Not everyone, however, considered it necessary to add that with such strict measures the decree protected only two species of plants and one species of mushrooms that are on the verge of extinction. These are true ginseng, rose rhodiola and matsutake.