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Organic Box Schemes

05 August 2006

UK sales of organic food jump-ed from just over £100 million in 1993/94 to £1.12 billion in 2003/04, with consu-mers spending almost £2 million extra a week on organic food (Compassion in World Farming Trust Report, 2002).
Supermarket chains now compete to provide larger and ever more exotic varieties of fruits and vegetables. Yet, although supermarkets continue to dominate or-ganic sales in the UK, accounting for 80 per cent of retail, there continues to be strong growth in sales from the farm direct to the consumer.
In April 2004, there were 3995 registered organic farmers in the UK (Soil Asso-ciation. Organic Food and Farming Report, 2004). As a part of this traditional means of buying produce, box schemes have soared by over 20 per cent, and now account for a tenth of all organic food sold. Customers are turning to more ‘natural’ means of obtaining organic food—box delivery schemes, farmers’ markets and farm shops—under the assumption that these sources are fresher and lo...

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