Over 2,300 farming enterprises employing around 2,288 workers and with a surface area of more than 57,000 hectares given over to organic farming, accounting for over 12% of the regional agricultural surface area. These are the figures of a regional movement which for some decades now has made organic farming not an ambition but a deliberate choice. It is no mere coincidence that the region has witnessed the birth of the first five historic organic cooperatives that are still in operation and which export to various EU and non-European countries, which have been joined over time by numerous businesses with Organic product sales outlets throughout the whole of the Marche region.