The current state of organic production in US and the world

Abstract

Stability and quality of agricultural production can be ensured by sustainable resource management. Health-safe products, economic benefit, preserving the environment and health can be achieved by organic production. Organic production in the World, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and North Macedonia was analyzed in this research. Agricultural land covers 76 mill. ha which is 1.6% of world land. It is noted a growth trend of the organic agricultural area in 2021 by 1.7% according data collected from 191 countries. The largest organic agricultural land areas are in Oceania (36 mill. ha or 47%) and Europe (17.8 mill. ha - 23%) followed by Latin America (9.9 mill. hа - 13%), Asia (6.5 mill. ha, 8.5 percent), Northern America (3.5 mill. hа - 4.6%) and Africa (2.7 mill. hа - 3.5%). A trend of area growth in 2021compared to 2020 was noted Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, B&H and North Macedonia. The largest increase had North Macedonia (7794 ha, 109.1%), then B&H (2495 ha, 47.5%), Serbia (23527 ha, 21.8%) and Croatia (121924 ha, 12.3%). Great export opportunity of Serbia is in that it has excellent conditions for the growth of organic production, because of its excellent geographical position and good quality land.