The project

The goal of BIOSCHAMP was to develop an alternative and sustainable low-peat casing for the mushroom industry, reducing the need for pesticides and contributing to improving the productivity, sustainability, and the profitability of the European mushroom sector.

The BIOSCHAMP legacy

Are you a mushroom grower or a bioeconomy stakeholder? BIOSCHAMP offers valuable materials and resources with essential insights and key findings to help you maximise the sustainability of your production.

The final event, videos, media mentions…. A wrap-up to explore the BIOSCHAMP results and implementation.

The mushroom cultivation process

The mushroom sector actively fosters circular economy sustainable models: mushroom cultivation reuses residual resources, working in line with the Circular Economy principles. BIOSCHAMP will further facilitate circularity and resource efficiency in the EU mushroom sector through the development of low-peat casing soil that will act as crop biostimulants.

Challenges in the mushroom industry

The EU needs to accelerate the transition towards a pesticide-free mushroom sector

Diseases in the mushroom sector

The mushroom sector is heavily affected by diseases: currently, mycoparasites are responsible for the largest crop losses in commercial mushroom production.

Chemical products dependency

The EU mushroom sector depends greatly on chemical products (pesticides) to tackle disease appearance, however, they are not always sustainable.

Few tools to fight the problem

There are no adequate means of controlling diseases, mushroom growers struggle to find solutions as the number of allowed chemical products (pesticides) decreases.

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