Organic food is growing in popularity worldwide. Organic market growth has been faster than production growth in recent years. There were 43.1 million hectares of organic land and 2 million organic producers in the world in 2013, of which 11.5 million hectares and 330,000 farmers were in Europe. The world organic market size was estimated to be €55 billion, and the European market size €24.3 billion. In Estonia, organic land area has expanded more than threefold over the last ten years. The number of processing and marketing enterprises is also growing every year, as well as sales of organic food. Healthiness is given as the main reason why Estonian consumers buy organic food. Both organic farming organizations and other enterprises are actively contributing to the development of the organic sector. The Estonian Organic Farming Development Plan 2014–2020 was launched in 2014 with the aim of increasing the competitiveness of organic producers and the consumption of local organic food. Also, proposal for organic farming measure was prepared for the Estonian Rural Development Plan for 2014–2020.