Archive:Organic farming statistics — setting higher standards
- Published in Sigma - The Bulletin of European Statistics, 2010/01
Organic farming is an agricultural production method which places the highest emphasis on environmental protection and animal welfare considerations. It avoids or largely reduces the use of products authorised in conventional agriculture, such as synthetic pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilisers, growth promoters such as antibiotics, and genetically modifi ed organisms. For a number of years now, Eurostat has been collecting data on organic farming, yet a lot still remains to be done, as Marleen De Smedt, Ana Martinez Palou and Elisabeth Rohner-Thielen from the Health and Food Safety Unit at Eurostat told Sigma.