German Organic Food Shortage?

"Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- German consumers may face a shortage of organic food as supply fails to keep up with rising demand, the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper reported today, citing the agricultural price-monitoring agency ZMP GmbH.

Sales of organic food rose more than 15 percent last year after an increase of 18 percent in 2006, giving what in German is called ``bio'' produce a market volume of about 5 billion euros ($7.3 billion), the newspaper said. 2007 was the fourth consecutive year of growth of more than 10 percent, it said."

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