Organic lamb missing the retail market

摘要

"IN teims of the amount of land being converted to produce organic lamb, the picture is a positive one," says Phil Stocker, head of agriculture at the Soil Association, ''but we still think there are the region of 40 per cent of all lambs produced org anically not making it to an organic retail outlet. "In 2002, for example, 160,000 made it to the organic market place, which means there were probably in excess of 220,0000 lambs actually produced on organic land." However, according to Mr Stdcker; bett er planning and structure would help to rectify the current situation, He says the problem is that a lot of organic lambs are being lost as stores at certain times of the year.