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Forces Impacting The Production of Organic Foods: Karen Klonsky by Sam Bate is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Domestic sales of organic products in 1998 are estimated to be $4.5 billion, which includes $500–600 million in exports and $200–300 million in herbs and non-food organic products. The estimated growth in organic food sales was 14 percent in 1998, and averaged about 20 percent a year over the last eight years compared to about two percent in the food industry overall. Paralleling the growing demand, the acreage of certified organic production increased by 91 percent from 1991 to 1995. In a 1998 survey of or

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Sam Bate

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