Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 09, 2008, 1:07 IST

The area under organic farming in the country has expanded over seven-fold in the last five years to cross the half-a-million hectares mark in 2007-08. The exports of organically produced products, too, have surged over four-fold to touch Rs 300 crore, up from just around Rs 73 crore in 2003.