The North American Market

摘要

With retail sales of organic food and beverages amounting to about US 12 billion dollar in 2003, the United States is the world's largest market for this product group. Industry sources expect recent years' strong growth (20 per cent or more annually)to continue over the short to medium term. In 2002, organic produce sales even grew by 33 percent (New Hope Natural Media). According to some surveys, retail sales of organic food might reach US 20 billion dollar in 2005, although other sources are less optimistic and think it will take longer to reach this level.