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IFOAM is proud to be Patron of BioFach India!
BioFach India celebrates premiere in 2009
- First BioFach India in Mumbai from November 18 to 20, 2009
The international BioFach family is growing again:
The first BioFach India takes place in the Bombay Exhibition Centre in
the Indian metropolis of Mumbai from 29.4 to 1.5.2009. The youngest
daughter of the proud mother BioFach Nürnberg, the World Organic Trade
Fair, is organized by NürnbergMesse.
Nürnberg Global Fairs, its international subsidiary, is responsible for
the organization of the event. The exhibition will be supported locally
by the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce. BioFach already brings together
a total of 3,700 exhibitors and more than 100,000 trade visitors from
all over the world. The organizers assume more strong growth through
BioFach India. After Japan, the USA, Brazil and China, it is the fifth
offspring of the world’s biggest platform for the organic industry.
“The BioFach family reflects the entire international organic market in
an incomparable way. The demand for organic products and especially for
raw materials of organic origin is increasing worldwide. India with its
cultural tradition and market structure offers enormous potential. The
supply of organic products is growing strongly and the demand is also
expanding noticeably. We are delighted that BioFach is welcome in
India”, says Herta Krausmann, Managing Director of Nürnberg Global
Fairs.
The
market prospects are brilliant: India actively promotes organic
agriculture and the growth of the organic market is also strongly
supported politically on the Indian subcontinent. 100 million EUR is to
be invested in 23 states, says the Indian Minister of State for Food
Processing Industries, Subodh Kant Sahay.
580,000 tons of
organic products were produced in India in 2006 and 2007, reports the
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority,
APEDA. The export volume is 47 million EUR. Estimates by the
International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture, ICCOA, show
that the organic farming area could grow to 2 million ha by 2012. The
current organically farmed area is 340,000 ha. Organic farming in India
is governed by EU-recognized standards. In line with the National
Programme for Organic Production, NPOP, formulated by the Indian
Ministry of Agriculture and implemented by APEDA, farms can be
certified to European, Swiss or US standards. The standards published
by IFOAM, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movements, are also used in India.
IFOAM is the patron of all five international BioFach
daughters: India, Japan, the
USA, Brazil and China as well as the mother of all organic trade fairs BioFach Nuremberg.
ICCOA could be gained as Indian partner.
Contact for international exhibitors:
Miriam Stahel
Nürnberg Global Fairs
Messezentrum
90471 Nürnberg
Germany
Tel +49 (0) 9 11. 86 06-86 92
biofach@ngfmail.com
Contact for Indian exhibitors:
Indo-German Chamber of Commerce
Ms Tanu Ailawadi
Tel +91 (0)11. 26 87-87 21
tanu@indo-german.com
Indo-German Chamber of Commerce
Ms Ruby Vatcha
Tel +91 (0) 22. 66 65-21 30
ruby@indo-german.com
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