Top Organic Farming Countries in 2017
Description
Organic Farming in 2017 totaled 69 million hectares across the world. The top 3 countries were Australia at 35 million ha, Argentina at 3.3 million ha and China at 3 million ha.There were over 3 million producers with the top 3 being: India at 1 million producers, Uganda and Mexico at 210,000 producers. Retail sales of organic produce totaled 89 billion euros with United States at the top of the list at $44 billion (40 billion euros), followed by Germany at 10 billion euros and France at 8 million euros.
Sources
- Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, https://statistics.fibl.org/world/key-indicators-world.html