“Positive mood in the international organic market”.

<P>The world’s leading exhibition Biofach expect some 2,500 exhibitors and more than 46,000 trade visitors at the Nürnberg exhibition site in 2010. The sector expects single-digit growth for 2009 and is looking optimistically to the future. “Although the growth in sales of organic food and drinks has slowed down in 2009, growth is still apparent”, says Amarjit Sahota of Organic Monitor . “The biggest growth is in Europe and North America”. According to the latest annual figures from FIBL. Both organic areas and markets grew again at international level in 2008. “The organic area in Europe has risen from 7,8 to 8,3 million ha”, says Helga Willer of FIBL. Spain registered the biggest growth with 33%, and the area of organic land grew by 10% in Poland, the Czech republic and Denmark. The country with the most organic land in Europe is now Spain with 1,3 million ha, of which 1,1 million ha are farming land. Growth in the USA in 2008 was a remarkable 16% despite the economic crisis. European sales of organic products in 2008 rose by 10% over the previous year and are estimated at 18 billion euros. In Italy the organic sales are growing again this year and rose by 7% in the first half of 2009. <BR><BR>Biofach presse Releases, October 2009, <A href="http://www.biofach.de/en/default.ashx">www.biofach/de/en</A><BR><BR></P…;