Flannerys Organic & Wholefoods Market is betting that Australian shoppers still want more than a standard health aisle. Its new Neutral Bay store points to a niche that keeps holding up in premium suburban retail: organic grocery, wellness products and in-store advice. For FMCG suppliers, the opening matters because it signals ongoing demand for curated … Read more
Australia’s organic horticulture sector has done something it has never managed before: get its four certification bodies to back one national growth plan. That matters because the organic horticulture strategy now has a clear commercial aim, not just a set of good intentions. For FMCG buyers, brand managers and supply chain teams, the signal is … Read more
In a small drying yard in Laskein block, West Jaintia Hills, I watched a woman named Rikynti Suchiang spread freshly boiled turmeric rhizomes across bamboo mats, the late-March sun turning each finger-shaped piece into something almost golden enough to be currency. She told me her cooperative had shipped 3.2 tonnes of organic Lakadong turmeric to … Read more
Most farmers I speak to know organic farming is the future — but very few know the government is actually paying you to make the switch. There is real money available, a real process to follow, and most people are simply not using it. Under the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), the Indian government provides … Read more
Any brand can print “organic” on a label in Australia right now, and nothing in the law stops them. That single regulatory gap has been quietly eroding the value of certified organic products for years — and the Federal Government has finally signalled it wants to fix it. Industry body Australian Organic Limited (AOL) has … Read more
In a cardamom field tucked above Rhenock town in East Sikkim, a farmer named Dawa Lepcha watched his neighbours across the border in Darjeeling spray synthetic pesticides on their tea gardens. It was 2014, and Sikkim’s state government had just told him — along with approximately 66,000 other farming families — that chemical fertilisers were … Read more