Lots of fresh chanterelles

Wholesale prices lower than in the good mushroom year 2001

There are currently plenty of fresh chanterelles available at reasonable prices. Imports from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus have been running at full speed for weeks, so that prices at the wholesale market level were recently 15 percent below those of the profitable year 2001 and were even XNUMX% lower than in the dry previous year.

Chanterelles are almost exclusively imported to Germany from the countries of Eastern Europe, where large quantities of these golden yellow mushrooms still grow under beech, oak, birch, spruce and pine trees. Last year imports amounted to 8.500 tons, in 2002 less than 5.000 tons and in the good mushroom year 2001 more than 13.000 tons. Since the cultivation of the chanterelles has not yet been successful, they have to be searched for individually, piece by piece, in the forest. In Poland, for example, there are organized collection points to which private individuals sell their chanterelle finds. Such structures do not exist in this country; here the yield of a chanterelle hunt in the forest usually ends up in your own cooking pot.

Source: Bonn [ZmP]