Nuremberg / Berlin, 14.02.2018. "2017 turned every day an average of five farmers on an agricultural area of about 500 football fields to organic," commented Peter Röhrig, Managing Director of the Federal Organic Food Association (BÖLW), on the occasion of the balance sheet press conference of the organic sector at the start of BIOFACH the strong organic interest of the German farmers ...
Berlin, 23.05.2017. "The new bio-law can not be implemented with the proposals now submitted," criticizes Felix Prinz of Löwenstein, Chairman of the Federal Ecological Food Industry (BÖLW), the current negotiating stage of the revision of the EU Eco-Regulation ...
Bioland recorded for the year 2016 record growth in the double digits. Especially dairy farms set, not least because of the disastrous prices in the conventional sector, increasingly on organic. But many arable farms and pig farmers see their occupational future in organic ...
Seal for products from organic farming is 15 years old!
Before 15 years ago, on 5. September 2001 has been introduced in Germany, the state organic seal. To start, there were at that time 15 85 company with labeled products. 15 years later 74.610 4.781 products of companies are registered for use of the organic label. A survey by the Thünen Institute of 2013 revealed that around 94 percent of consumers know the organic label ...
Berlin, 08.09.2016. The demand for organic products has doubled in the past 10 years. More organic farming is therefore an opportunity for an increasing number of German farmers to secure their professional existence. This requires that the policy opens the way for free. "Investing in organic farming, ie farming crisis fix" the chairman of the organic umbrella organization Federation of the Organic Food Industry (BÖLW), Felix Prinz says Lowenstein, at today's presentation of the agriculture budget in the Bundestag ...
"The organic market is like a car with consumers as a powerful motor and the political framework as handbrake. Now, the policy must release the brakes and pull out all the stops in order to accelerate the growth of organic farming, "says Felix Prinz commented to Lowenstein, president of the Federation of the Organic Food Industry (BÖLW) the organic market data for the year 2012. After the calculation of the Agricultural Market Information Company (AMI) coordinated the working group Biomarkt * 1 saw the German organic market 2012 sales by 6%, reaching a total market volume of 7,04 billion euros (2011: 6,64 billion €). Its share of the total food market in Germany will thus increase from 3,7% in 2011 on 3,9% in 2012.
When speaking in the food industry over the prefixes "eco" or "bio", almost always resonates with a worldview or at least an emotional coloring. Some are flaming supporters and for the other organic farming is ridiculed niche. Just the world's largest agricultural fair, the International Green Week (IGW) in Berlin, the fronts were often significantly. Dedicated you look at the facts and figures, a picture emerges of the situation. As of January 2012.
The number of Newly converted farm operations increased from 19.813 2008 21.047 on holdings in 2009, representing an increase of 1234 6,2% or establishments. During the same period the area under organic management from 907.786 ha increased to 947.115 ha - an increase of 39.329 4,3% ha respectively. However, looking only bound to a German farming association establishments, their number increased by 6%, and of them cultivated area increased by 5,2%. These figures show that the efficient farms are members of the Union, while EU organic farms are often small businesses without association membership, the faces - eg orchards - Switch. This highlights the importance of organizations for marketing, consulting and development of organic agriculture.
"Even in times of crisis, the organic market shows its potential for further growth," said the chairman of the Federation of the Organic Food Industry characterized (BÖLW), Felix Prinz zu Loewenstein, the situation of the organic market at the press conference of the Association on the occasion of the BioFach, the world's leading trade fair the industry. "The principles and values of fachhandel oriented organic food industry are a model for sustainable business: profit not as a goal but as a condition in order to provide natural justice produced, healthy food can; Financial transactions mainly through banks, finance only concrete and known projects and make it transparent; Resources are obtained as a basis for future economies, multiplied or at least protected, "said Alexander Gerber, Managing Director of BÖLW. "Find the crisis, consumers are increasingly looking for alternatives, which they themselves can influence a reasonable Created economy." Therein Gerber sees one of the reasons for the resilience of the sector. "The consumer poses particular food prices not just his attitude overboard."
After strong growth in the two previous years, sales volumes for organic bread in Germany 2008 came up not to the previous year: The purchase volumes of private households fell by three percent.
The dairies that process organic milk were able to keep the prices paid to farmers at a high level in 2008. The price advantage over conventionally produced milk was at times more than 15 cents per kilogram. In 2008, producers of organic milk were able to achieve higher prices than in the previous year for the third year in a row.