After years of boom, there are fewer organic farmers this year for the first time: the costs and strict regulations are playing tricks on them. Why are farmers giving up? And is the organic boom also over in the supermarket?
In international comparison, Austria is an organic model country and in Styria the curve is rising sharply year after year. This year, however, the organic sector has suffered a slight setback for the first time in a long time: at the start of the new AMA subsidy period in 2023, about five percent fewer farmers applied for the organic programme.
“The bill just isn’t right anymore”
A dropout is the dairy farmer Peter Jöchlinger from Mautern in Obersteiermark. On March 1, he said goodbye after eight years with a heavy heart and is now running his business conventionally again.
Source: Krone
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