Organic Growth in Brazil

"In Brazil, the organic product sector has become a growing market, expanding above the average of the conventional food, beverage and cosmetics sectors. Producing and selling green has turned into something more professional and gained scale. Worldwide, it has a yearly turnover of US$ 40 billion and growth of 30%.

Over the last two years there has been 50% expansion in sales, in Brazil, well above that identified in other countries, large global consumers of products free of pesticides, like Germany and the United States.

Biofach Latin America 2007, which began Tuesday, October 16, in the sidelines of ExpoSustentat, in the city of São Paulo, in the Brazilian southeast, confirms the sector's growth trajectory."

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