Eight percent of Poles buy organic food once a week - SGGW
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Eight percent of Poles buy organic food once a week, indicate a poll run by the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW). Organic food\'s share in the overall food sale barely reaches 1 pct, like in Spain, Greece and Portugal, reporters were told Wednesday.
SGGW\'s Sylwia Zakowska-Biemans pointed out that poor organic food sales result from lack of information about selling outlets and food availability as well as from food\'s high price and customers\' inability to distinguish organic food from other type of food, which had also been signalled by the European Commission.
In Zakowska-Biemans\' opinion organic food processing has been gaining importance with the number of plants going up from 55 in 2004 to 267 in 2011.
"From 2004 to 2011 the number of organic farms and land went up six times," Krzysztof Jonczyk, coordinator of Organic Food Valley project said.
He added that a cluster supporting organic food producers and affiliating 19 organic food processing firms in five eastern Polish provinces received PLN 2.5 million from EU funds.
Jonczyk added that 46 percent of a total of 23,400 organic farms and 23 pct of 293 processing plants were located in the said five five provinces.
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