Australia, world leader in organic agriculture

"In 2021, Australia was ranked first with an organic agricultural land area amounting to 35.69 million hectares. The land area used for organic agriculture in Australia is thus larger than the acreage of all the other leading countries combined. Australia is followed by Argentina and France, which each had areas of organic agriculture of approximately 4.07 and 2.78 million hectares, respectively." - Statista "Organic producers have proven for decades that they can provide sustainable yields of healthy, nutritious food without extensive use of some of the most toxic agricultural chemicals used in intensive farming. The Australian organic industry includes over 3,000 producers in Australia and covers more than 35.3 million hectares of farmland – 9.4% of Australia’s total farmable land mass... The industry is worth in excess of $3.6bn and growing around 11% a year. Organic producers across Australia use best-practice land stewardship methods to produce food without harmful chemicals or residues and which incorporate healthy biological soil systems and build natural resilience against pests and diseases... Organic producers run legitimate, profitable, large-scale agricultural businesses, with cropping and livestock producers managing in excess of 5,000-1 million hectares each. They do this without using harmful chemicals such as synthetic fertilisers. Rotational and regenerative farming methods reflect the way nature intended food to be grown, not singular monocropping systems that require high levels of external and potentially harmful chemicals to do what nature cannot in artificial and intensive farming systems."