Germany is not only the largest market for organic products in Europe but also one of its largest organic producers. In spite of this fact, in 2009/2010 Germany imported, depending on the product, 2 to 95 percent of such organic products which could also have been produced in the country.
This is shown by a project under the German Federal Scheme for Organic Farming and Other Forms of Sustainable Agriculture (BÖLN), carried out by the Agricultural Market Information Company (AMI) (www.ami-informiert.de), the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) (www.FiBL.org) and the market research company AgroMilagro (Helga Willer
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bioimporte.de: Importe von Bio-Produkten nach Deutschland ermittelt (in german)
Links
- orgprints.org: "Analyse der Entwicklung des ausländischen Angebots bei Bioprodukten mit Relevanz für den deutschen Biomarkt" (in german)
- bundesprogramm.de: Project: Analyse der Entwicklung des ausländischen Angebots bei Bioprodukten mit Relevanz für den deutschen Bio-Markt (in german)