“U.S.: Organic product sales reach 26.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2009”.

U.S. sales of organic products continued to grow during 2009 despite the distressed state of the economy, in fact, organic product sales in 2009 grew by 5.3 percent overall, to reach 26.6 billion US dollars. Of that figure, 24.8 billion US dollars represented organic food. The remaining 1.8 billion U.S. dollars were sales of organic non-foods. “While total U.S. food sales grew by only 1.6 percent in 2009, organic food sales grew by 5.1 percent” said Christine Bushway, OTA’s Executive Director. <br>Experiencing the most growth, organic fruits and vegetables, which represent 38 percent of total organic food sales, reached nearly 9.5 billion U.S. dollars in sales in 2009.<br>Since the approval of the final National Organic Program rule published in 2000, sales of organic fruits and vegetables have grown from 2.55 billion U.S. dollars to the nearly 9.5 billion U.S. Meanwhile, during that time, organic food sales have grown from 6.1 billion to 24.8 billion U.S. dollas in 2009, jumping from 1.2 percent of all U.S. food sales to 3.7 percent. <br><br><br>Source:&nbsp; “U.S. Organic Product Sales Reach $26.6 Billion in 2009”. OTA press release of April 22, 2010. The OTA Homepage <br><br>“Organic World net”, 30 aprile 2010, <a href="http://www.organic-world.net/index.html">www.organic-world.net</a><br><…;