(truffles, mushrooms, wild and medicinal plants, hunting fund, wild fruits and berries…)
Objective No. 1 Protection of the habitat of non-wood forest products
Activities:
- Promotion and education campaigns on the protection of truffle habitats in Istria and other surface mushrooms
- Education of harvesters on proper collection of non-wood forest products
- Influence the legislation of non-wood forest products, especially the Regulations on the Protection of mushrooms with respect to the period of truffle picking
Objective Nr. 2 Creating a database of non-wood forest products
Activities:
- Create a database of existing species and distribution of mushrooms, truffles, wild herbs and berries, in cooperation with the competent institutions
- Develop a study on the amount of picking, processing and marketing of the non-wood forest products in the Model Forest area
- Education of the residents about the habitats, usage, benefits, and preparation of medicinal and edible plants, mushrooms and fruits
Objective Nr. 3 Strengthen the offer and processing of non-wood forest products
Activities:
- Encourage the involvement of non-wood forest products in gastronomic offer in the Model Forest area
- Branding the non-wood forest products with a stamp "Mirna River Basin" Model forest
- Creating paths of non-wood forest products (e.g. herbs path or mushroom path ...)
- Marketing of local products in the informative materials of the Model Forest
- Implement "Traceability of local products" and coding of non-wood forest products; tracking products from where they were collected, processed, and to the place where they are sold
- Encourage the construction of plants for the processing of non-wood forest products in the area of the Model Forest
- Encourage the processing of non-wood forest products in food, cosmetics and for therapeutic purposes
- Encourage the cultivation of truffles in the plantation manner, out of mycorrhized seedlings
Objective Nr. 4 Regulation of non-wood forest products and truffles market
Activities:
- Encouraging the establishment of stock exchanges for truffles, mushrooms and non-wood forest products
- Encourage the organization of purchase stations for non-wood forest products
- Encourage the establishment of truffle pickers association in the area of Model forest
- Encourage the legalization of truffles and non-wood forest products rurchase
- Organize monitoring during the picking of truffles and non-wood forest products
Measurable results: truffles stock exchange, purchase stations, databases, lectures, educative campaigns, promotional materials, truffle plantations, new non-wood forest products, non-wood forest products trails, scientific studies, associations, plants for processing, the number of branded products.
Activity holders: Croatian Forest Research Institute, Croatian Forests, Mushroom association “Boletus”, truffles pickers, companies for truffle and mushroom processing.
Included and target groups: residents from the Model Forest area, associations, craftsmen, and family farms, processors and collectors of non-wood forest products.
