The Association of Ecological Agriculture in Lithuania was established in 1990. There are about 170 membersof Association now, more than 150 of them are farmers, the others teachers, scientists, who are interested in ecological agriculture and are propagating these ideas.
All farms are private.
The Control Committee inspected 64 farms in 1995 and issued 36 Certificates of which 6 farms are fully converted and 30 are in conversion. We expect to have 70 certified ecological farms in 1996. In Lithuania financial support for ecological agriculture is concentrated in the Karst region, a region with several ground water pollution problems because of its geological characteristics. In other parts of Lithuania the development of organic agriculture is supported by many governmental and non-governmental organizations. The conversion subsidy would stimulate a large group of farmers to convert to ecological agriculture.