Family Farming Knowledge Platform

Organic agriculture

The sector of organic agriculture is continuously developing, involving more and more new enterprises, but the number of certified organic farms has stabilized, and in 2013 it reached 3473 farms. Lately, the areas of agricultural land used by organic farms show a stable growing trend. In 2013, similar to other years, the major part of certified organic agricultural land areas and those in transition (without perennial grasses, meadows and pastures) was under cereal crops.

On organic farms, a dominant sector of animal husbandry is milk production and in 2013 it yielded 69.6 thousand tons of milk, the amount of meat has increased slightly than in the previous year.

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Year: 2015
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Country/ies: Latvia
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Type: Newsletter
Content language: English
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