Trends in the development of organic production in Europe

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals direct the activities of all sectors of the economy to preserve the environment and minimize the negative consequences of anthropogenic activities. The agro-industrial complex is a major source of pollution of soil, water, air and the entire biosphere in general, and therefore significant changes have been taking place in agriculture over the last 20 years, both in the methods of its organization and in the directions of development. Europe was chosen as the object of analysis for the study, since it is here that almost all countries use organic technologies in the agricultural sector, the area of organic land, the number of organic producers, the volume of produced, exported and imported organic products, and their consumption increase every year. As part of the work, countries are grouped (by calculating a multidimensional average from a number of indicators) according to the level of development of organic agriculture, and the reasons for the differences are established; based on the method of correlation and regression analysis, the relationship between the demand for organic products and the level of average income in the country was identified and described; the structure of exports and imports of organic products was studied; the pace of development of the production of organic products was determined according to key characteristics, the main projects adopted in the field of crop production were considered in order to increase the volume of production of organic products. Based on the analysis, a conclusion was made about the pace and directions of development of organic agriculture in the European Union.