date:Mar 14, 2014
tor players, we now confidently expect accelerating growth in the short to medium term, and organic producers and processors need to be looking at how they can gear up to capitalise on this, given that organics can have longer production lead times than non-organic.
However despite the growing demand for organic, figures from Defra reveal that producer and livestock numbers, as well as the land area given over to organic, decreased in the previous year to December 2012.
Sexton added: 2013 has