Organic markets grow constantly worldwide

The international organic market is growing by approx. 5 billion US dollars a year, the press service of BioFach - the main international fair for the organic field - highlights.

 

Its volume in 2007 topped 40 billion US dollars for the first time, Organic Monitor reports. 30.4 million hectares of land throughout the world are farmed organically.

 

Australia has the largest area of organic farming land with 12.3 million ha, followed by China (2.3 million ha), Argentina (2.2 million ha) and the USA (1.6 million ha).

The largest share of global organic farming land is therefore in Oceania (42 %), followed by Europe (24 %) and Latin America (16 %) (The World of Organic Agriculture – Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008).
 

“We assume that the worldwide organic area will continue to grow,” says Helga Willer from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland. Current figures for the beginning of September 2008, which cover about half the European Countries, confirm an approximate 7 % growth.

Altogether some 8 million ha of land in Europe are farmed using organic methods. Higher growth is shown mainly by the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

 

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