subject: Why Is Organic Food More Expensive? [print this page] It is a widely known fact that organic food costs us a little extra as compared to the intensively farmed and heavily sprayed chemical food. It can always be considered as a better option as compared to the farm grown food. It has more minerals, vitamins, enzymes and most importantly tastes better than the farm produced food. It is devoid of any kind of pesticides, insecticides fertilizers other artificial additives, colorings, flavorings and preservatives that are toxic for the human body. However, in recent times the cost of organic food has grown more than the normally available food in the shops. There are many reasons for this increase in price and can be easily explained by focusing on certain important factors.
The production of these types of foods or products is very limited and thus does not satiate the demand. In addition, the total cost involved in the production process of organic foods are also higher due to greater labor inputs on small and less quantity or output units. After the initial process of harvesting, processing, transportation and marketing of comparatively small or large volume of organic food ultimately results in comparatively higher price of the final food item.
This clearly indicates that due to the less amount of organically food grown, the demand and the cost in the market are divided over a final small quantity of output produced by these farms. Besides this, many of these food products are not chemically enhanced and their growth is not hormone induced. They take a longer amount of time (compared to the typical food products available in the market) to actually grow and become worthy of being sold. Ultimately their growth cycle is larger and their costs are divided over a smaller number of outputs.
Nevertheless, in past few years with the growing awareness and increasing demand for organic food and its products, sincere steps have been taken by the government. Steps have been implemented and in many places strategy to execute new methodologies and technological innovations are in already in process to reduce the costs required to produce, process, distribute, and market the organic products.
The various other factors that play an important role in the high value of the organic food are:
Environmental protection and enhancement
High standards for the animal welfare
All these hidden factors have influenced the price of the organic food products and resulted in making them rate higher than their traditional counterparts.
