An overview of the market of organic products for 2017, published on may 24, a Trade Association for organic products (Organic Trade Association, OTA), showed that in 2016 the volume of sales in the U.S. totaled $47 billion compared to the previous year this figure increased by almost $3.7 billion.

According to the OTA survey, 5.3 percent of total food sales in the U.S. is organic. Sales of organic food products for the year increased by 8.4%, significantly higher than average sales growth in the food market, which amounted to 0.6%.

The leading position among all the food categories in the organic sector is fruits and vegetables, whose sales for the year amounted to $15.6 billion that is in the fruit and vegetable sector accounts for almost 40% of all sales of all organic food. In OTA noted that sales growth of this category of products are that the benefits of organic products is better understood by her example.

Russia lags behind the United States In 2015, according to the Institute FiBl, organic market in Russia amounted to $120 million But potentially, by 2020, the market for organic products in Russia may grow according to experts up to 300-400 billion rubles due to the adoption of normative-legal base in this sphere.

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