Organic market news for Feb 2006 Wilcox Named OTA Executive DirectorNEW YORK - Feb 2/06 - SNS -- The Organic Trade Association (OTA) named Caren Wilcox its new executive director, succeeding Katherine DiMatteo, OTA's original executive director who has served in that role since 1990. . . . Continue or visitors click here Consumer Unwilling to Pay Big Organic PremiumSYDNEY - Feb 3/06 - SNS -- The premium consumers are wiling to pay for organic food products may not be as large as the industry thinks, discovered a survey of Australian consumers commissioned by Nourish Food Pty. Ltd. . . . Continue or visitors click here Organic "Good Folks" Image CrackingCHICAGO - Feb 8/06 - SNS -- The organic industry has an image of being populated by environmentally conscious people stumbling over one another with compliments and niceties. . . . Continue or visitors click here Organic Cotton More Popular in KyrgyzstanJALAL-ABAD - Feb 14.06 - IRIN -- Many cotton growers in southern Kyrgyzstan are joining an organic farming drive in the area, with numbers up almost six times since the initiative kicked off in 2003. . . . Continue or visitors click here 31 Million Hectares Now OrganicWASHINGTON - Feb 14/06 - SNS -- More than 31 million hectares of farmland is now certified for producing organic food around the world, according to statistics compiled by The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), the SwissResearch Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), and the Foundation Ecology & Farming (SOEL), Germany. . . . Continue or visitors click here
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