Organic product sales grew by more than 5%, reaching $26.6 billion in 2009, despite the distressed state of the economy, according to the Organic Trade Association’s 2010 Organic Industry Survey.
Of that figure, $24.8 billion represented organic food. "While total U.S. food sales grew by only 1.6% in 2009, organic food sales grew by 5.1%," said Christine Bushway, OTA’s executive director. Meanwhile, organic non-food s[...]