20% export boost for mushroom growers

Good news for the Irish-controlled companies that supply about 60% of the UK supermarket mushroom trade: sales in the UK have increased to an all-time high.

Few Irish farming sectors have been on crazy a Brexit and Covid roller-coaster ride as the mushroom growers.

Right now, they are on a high, with their product much in demand for the home cooking which boomed during the lockdown, further boosted by mushrooms being the only vegetable source of vitamin D, which consumers now seek in their food, after research showed vitamin D’s positive impact in preventing and lessening the effects of Covid 19.