Since, the early 1990s organic food production has had growth rates of around 20% a year.


Demand for organic foods is growing at phenomenally high volume sales through supermarkets are rapidly replacing the direct farmer connection. For supermarket consumers, food production is not easily observable, and product labeling, like "certified organic", is relied on.

Foods that are organic, must be free of artificial food additives, and often, are processed with fewer artificial methods, materials, such as chemical ripening, food irradiation, and genetically modified ingredients.

It is food production without the use of chemically formulated fertilizers, growth stimulants, antibiotics, or pesticides.

Organic food is produced to standards designed to keep the production more 'natural', and less, if any, chemicals are used and most pesticides are banned. If used, they are very carefully controlled.

The world organic market has grown by more than 20% annually since the early 1990s, with future growth estimates ranging up to 50% annually depending on the country.