Organic farming must make a growth spurt

The share of organic farming in Europe should rise to 25 percent of the agricultural area in the next ten years, according to plans that the European Commission will present today.

An ambitious goal, because it is now only ten percent on average, and even less in the Netherlands. Why is organic farming here so marginal compared to our neighboring countries? And what does it take to increase the share? Read here the background article that Resource recently made about organic farming:

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