Forty years ago the first edition of The Mushroom People was landing through growers’ postboxes.
There was an informative interview with Dr Cathal Mc Canna of the Kinsealy Research Centre.The ins and outs of the bag system was fully explored in an article by W.R. Jones who was based at the Horticulture Advisory Service on The Mall in Armagh.
The British Minister of Ag at the Time Mr Jopling “ had little in the way of encouragement for the mushroom industry” according to our Special Correspondent.
. The Irish mushroom industry of forty years both north and south, was a very different business in many ways - but some themes still recur four decades on.
