Basic Characteristics of the Organic Agriculture Market

Jelena Golijan () and Aleksandar Popovic ()
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Jelena Golijan: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture, Serbia
Aleksandar Popovic: Maize Research Institute "Zemun Polje", Belgrade, Serbia

International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, 2016, vol. 5, 236-244

Abstract: Considering the fact that the environment and natural resources face the consequences and challenges of conventional agriculture, the importance of organic agriculture has been growing. The adverse effect of climate change, contamination of soil and water as resources, are limiting factors that lead to the increase in cost price of organic products. Ever more complex process of the approach to the essential conditions necessary for the organization of organic production through the provision or conversion of the land, access to water resources of satisfactory quality, availability of adequate organic fertilizers, results in high prices, quantitative limitation of organic product markets, the complexity of the certification processes and their protection. The value of the global organic food market in 2014 amounted to 80 billion US dollars, whereby USA, Germany, and France China were the leading countries. Australia is the country with the largest organic areas (17.2 million hectares). Approximately 2.3 million organic producers in the world manage 43.7 million hectares. The total organic areas increase at the average annual rate of change of 6.7%.

Keywords: Organic production; organic product market; distribution channels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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