Marketing organic produce products

Establish national standards governing the marketing of certain agricultural products as organically produced products... 

Contract review is but one of the tasks in the contract acquisition process. These are marketing, prospect acquisition, tendering, contract negotiation, contract award, and then contract review. However, in a sales situation, you may simply have a catalog of products and services and a sales office taking orders over the telephone or over the counter. The contract review element of this operation takes a few seconds while you determine if you can supply the item requested. In an organization that produces products to specific customer requirements you may in fact carry out all the tasks in the contract acquisition process. Rather than isolate the contract review task and produce a procedure for this, your business may benefit more from a procedure or series of procedures that covers the contract acquisition process as a whole. 

A farmers market is where a fee is paid for a market table, on a particular date. Here, the farmer displays organic produce and keeps all the proceeds. Some farmers have made contact in this way with fastidious restaurant chefs in search of premium ingredients. An ability to answer relevant questions helps in this context, as do tastings and, if possible, simple demonstrations. A quick walk round a farmers market is also a simple way to compare products and prices. 

First, organic sources of nutrients or organic pest control measures are often more expensive than traditional sources. Second, marketable yields are frequently less with organic production. Lastly, organic produce may not store or ship as well as traditional produce. 

Joint FAO-WHO Food Standards Programme 1999. Codex Alimentarius Guidelines for the Production, Processing Labelling and Marketing of Organically Produced Pood. Joint FAO-WHO Food Standards Programme, Rome. 

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