France's Five-Year Plan To Boost Organic Food Market Still Lags Behind EU. From: Food & Drink Weekly | Date: April 5, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Informa Economics, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

French organic farmers and food processors are catching up with their neighbors, but France's organic industry has a way to go yet to meet similar production and sales levels as in the rest of the EU. With the French government's five year action plan to help French farmers to convert to organic agriculture there has been an expansion of organic production. The number of farmers and cultivated areas converted to organic agriculture strongly increased during 1998, according to a rep...

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