Developing and Expanding Organic

"After extensive consultations with producers, recommendations on how to develop and expand the organic agriculture industry have been presented to Premier Lorne Calvert.

Minister of regional economic and co-operative development Lon Borgerson was responsible for gathering information.

"The demand is over 20% a year in terms of organic sales and it is steady and market analysts say organics are here to stay. So my report makes recommendations to expand the organic industry from production to processing to marketing. We have about 1300 certified organic farmers in the province right now and others who are transitioning. That represents about 3% of the farmers.

Borgerson explains, this is also important for the economy."

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