BIO SUISSE

Bio Suisse is a private-sector organization and the association of Swiss organic agricultural organizations. This umbrella organization counts 33 regional and national member organisations, with more than 7500 individual organic farms and processors among its members, as well as the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, FiBL. We develop common and uniform standards for agriculture and processing, as basis to use the protected trademark 'Bud' (German: Knospe). Organic produce carrying the Bud logo has a market share of about 60% in Switzerland. More than 1200 processing and trade companies have a licence contract with Bio Suisse to use the trademark.