Organic food 5% increase sales in 2015

The Soil Association has produced figures, in their Organic Market Report 2016, showing that organic products sales have increased 4.9 % in 2015. During the same period, non organic groceries have reduced by 9 %.
The largest growth sector was in organic health and beauty, up 21.6 % to £54.2 million.
Total organic sales are now £1.95 billion. The total food and drink sector in the UK is worth over £92 billion, which is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. The organic market is therefore, just over 2 % of this total, but it is expanding fast, in contrast to the rest of the sector, which is declining. A younger age group is increasingly demanding organic products.
According to Organic Farming, Wikipedia, world organic farmland has grown in area by 8.9 % per annum from 2001 to 2011. In 2011, there was 37 million hectares (91 million acres) of organic farmland in the world, representing 0.9 % of the total.
In the UK, the area of organic farmland increased until 2010, when it has since declined somewhat to stand at 548,000 hectares in 2014 (Organic farming statistics 2014 - Gov.uk). 84 % of this organic land was under pasture, with the largest amount devoted to sheep, so perhaps this recent decline is due to other factors of the financial viability of such land rather than whether there is a clearly increased demand for such food. The cost of conversion is clearly an important factor in this.
It is clear from these figures that demand for organic products is outstripping supply, because the costs and declining yields during conversion of the land, can deter producers. It is therefore imperative that more research is undertaken to help defray the costs of conversion and to sustain yields.
One problem has been the damage top ancient woodlands in the UK, which harbour mycelium, or fungal threads, that sustain plant life in and around woods. Along with the vast quantity of microbes and life within each square metre of soil that has not been contaminated by chemicals, clearly it takes some time to regain such healthy soil condition where mycellium and microbes are fully functioning.