While the level of consumption of organic food is markedly lower in Hungary than in many other European countries, there is an increasing trend among consumers to look for functional and ethically and environmentally sustainable food. This potentially opens up new perspectives for the organic food producers who currently are mainly small scale farmers and family enterprises. Of the whole agricultural area of Hungary (6,193 thousand hectare) only 2,07% is certified as organic (Biokontroll Hungária Kht.), but there has been a very rapid growth of the organic area in recent years. Because of the high prices of organic products a great mass of them is exported to the European Union and to Switzerland. From the beginning of the 1990s, 10% of organic products is sold in Hungary. The volume of organic animal production is low. In 2004, there were 160 farms in organic animal husbandry. The number of animals in organic production was 12,254, of which 253 were goats (2,06%) (Biokontroll Hungária Kht.).