Organic Framing

Size of Organic Food Market/Area Under Organic Farming

Size of Organic Food Market/Area Under Organic Farming

• 18 mha in N-E India –default OF.
• Roots of OF in English speaking word can be found in India.
• Albert Woward(1873-19470-a agricultural scientist.
• Robert Mc Carrison (1878-1960)
• In Pusa, New Delhi, Howard worked on plant breeding and plant protection. At the agricultural research at Indore, he developed an aerobic composting techniques known as “Indore process”.
• Until 2001 there were only 304 organic farms in India. According to IFOAM- survey in 2005, India has about 76, 326 ha area under OF managed by 5147 certified organic farms which is only 0.05% of total agricultural land.
• Demand for organic products from India: Basmati rice, Spices, Tea, Coffee, Mango, Pineapple, Banana, Vanilla, and Cashew nuts, Protein grains.
• Export of organic products from India to other countries

Europe : Netherlands, UK, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy and Spain.
Americas : USA and Canada
Middle East : Saudi Arabia and UAE
Asia : Japan and Singapore
Africa : South Africa
Australia : Australia

World

• There were only few organic farmers in 1980. Now in 2006, as many as 6,23,000 organic farms with some 31.5 mha area managed organically, it is practiced in about >130 countries.
• Market for organic products is growing not only in Europe and North America but also in many other countries.
• Growing health and environmental concern creating huge domestic and export market.
• International market for organic food products
  19.73 billion US $ during 2000
  26.00 billion US $ during 2002 (Indian share is 20 million US $)
• Demand for organic food is steadily increasing both in developed and developing countries with annual growth rate of 20-25%.
• Australia, Argentina, Italy, Canada and USA are the countries having largest area under OF.
• Some of the countries like Sweden, Australia,Switzerland, Finland and Italy have substantial area (10%) under OF.
• Leading organic food consumers: Swiss, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, In Asia, Japan is the major consumer. Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and to some extent Korea.
• IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement) in 1972. Its first conference was held at Switzerland.

Market

• Current market: 23-25 billion US $
• Annual growth rate: 15-20%
• USA: 11-13 billion US $
• Japan: 350-450 million US $
• Europe: 10-11 billion US $