The organic food market has grown at an extraordinary pace over the last five years and the growth is far from ending here. Thus, estimates indicate a potential doubling of the sales by 2011. Such statistics have imprinted a new direction to the development of the organic food market since more and more food producers have taken up these lines of production trying to capitalize on them. Consumers, on the other hand, are determined to read ORGANIC on labels and thus stay away from the pesticides, the genetically modified organisms, the hormones and the antibiotics in conventional food.
The extension of the organic food market is therefore rooted in the increased consumer awareness that non-organic foods are dangerous. With information there comes the effort of avoiding the products that are so full of chemicals. This means that a real revolution will occur on the organic food market with bio products taking preeminence over the others. And people shop at supermarkets, which is why, retailers have to offer attractive products that are considered organic commodities at a very affordable price. Consequently, when you shop at Wal-Mart you expect to get organic foods at a fairly decent rate.
The organic food market is presently serviced by a huge number of producers worldwide. Export of organic products is not held in too high esteem although it represents an agreeable commercial practice. The emphasis and the responsibility at the same time falls on local producers, farmers or farming groups that address the needs of the local market sector. The organic food market is in a continuous expansion that goes hand in hand with an increase of productivity. This growth can only be achieved if more and more manufacturers get caught in the system. There is however a risk in this extension.
With the higher demand for organic foods, the sales of conventional products will drop. The problem here is that even the regular items on the organic food market can become subject to the production haste that will involve some form of automated processing or food treatment, thus, pushing the all organic principles a bit further, making them rather loose in fact. Therefore, we could be assisting right now to a softening of the standards that make organic foods so desirable to the health-concerned consumers. Only through strict regulations and their solid implementation will the organic food market preserve its high quality standards.
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