Consumption of organic food grows by 17% in Spain

This report details that COVID-19 has driven the growth of organic products and in the first half of 2020, turnover grew by 35%. Likewise, 68% of organic consumers buy these products because they are healthy and help prevent diseases. The president of Ecovalia, Álvaro Barrera, has ensured that, even despite the health crisis, “the sector has lived up to the challenge and has responded to the needs of society, growing turnover during the first half of 2020 up to 35%, a figure that shows the growing interest of the population in the consumption of organic products ”. The market value of the consumption of organic products in Europe amounts to 45,046 million euros. In this sense, Spain is in seventh place, with 2,133 million euros (5%), behind Germany (31%), France (29%), Italy (9%), Switzerland (8%), United Kingdom (7%) and Sweden (6%). Likewise, Spain has managed to enter the podium of the countries with the largest ecological surface, placing itself in third position, with 2.3 ...