Is Organic Food Expensive?

Organic food is very safe to eat and healthy. It's not just in our body but also in our environment. It's free from harmful chemicals and toxins that may affect in the future if consume. Although we can get benefits from taking organic food, but why the demand is still very low? One of the reasons is the 'price'. Organic food is more expensive than the conventional food.

There are a lot of reasons why the organic food is far expensive than the conventional food. In growing organic foods, the numbers of crops that are being produced are far way smaller than conventional crops. The production costs are very high in organic farming. Many organic farmers don't use herbicides or pesticides so they have to weed some crops like onions and carrots and the entire pest by themselves. This intensive labor is one of the reasons why organic foods are really expensive. Of course, it is justified that organic farmers must sell it in a high price to reward their effort.

Some of the reasons too are that the demand exceeds the supply. So the result is that the people who sell organic foods produces small number of crops than conventional foods while the transport and packaging costs is the same as the conventional foods, this gives the retailers the reason to put it to a higher price. As there are fewer numbers of organic foods, the expense allocated to each crop is higher than that of conventional foods.

As the organic farming requires a lot of things that are not needed in conventional farming, it is justified that the farmers who grow the crops will sell the crops in a much higher price to the consumers. But if the demand for organic foods becomes higher, the government might one day subsidize the organic farming to lessen the cost of organic foods.