Organic agriculture market development : 'working towards a robust and independent sector’

Summary

Organic agriculture achieves high scores on sustainability, association and expansion, making it highly compatible with the government ambitions for sustainable agriculture. In view of the results achieved in the organic sector and the market developments, two ambitions have been formulated for 2008-2011. The first ambition is to associate organic agriculture with pioneers in the field of sustainability, thus promoting the exchange of knowledge. In addition, the government challenges the sector to reinforce the ties to society. This ambition is also linked to the target for 10 innovations from the organic sector to be applied in general agriculture. The second ambition is to develop organic agriculture into an independent and robust sector that has such tangible targets as an annual growth of 10% in consumer spending on organic products and 5% related growth