| Organic Producers Trade Association (OPTA) |
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OPTA serves as the main organizational catalyst in the relatively infant Philippine organic agriculture industry. Founded in light of the “compelling need to strongly bind the organic advocates,” OPTA “aggressively promotes the patronage of organic products.” “OPTA’s mission is to build sustainable communities through organic agriculture by providing responsible leadership, setting standards of organic integrity, develop a new breed of millennium farmers that hold sacred – the sense of stewardship – a sense of mission to contribute to the quality of life for others.” “The vision of OPTA is to advocate organic agriculture as a way of life and to network with organic practitioners and consumers. OPTA is committed to pursue organic integrity in an emerging organic industry.” |