India has most number of organic cultivators but only 1.1% of acreage. Organic farming may not be mainstream yet, but it has rapidly grown in stature in the last two decades, according to a new survey. There has been a more than five-fold increase in the acreage of land under organic cultivation since the turn of the millenium. India was among the top 10 countries with 1.94 million hectares (mha) under organic cultivation in 2018, according to the survey by Switzerland-based Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) and Germany-based International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements — Organics International (IFOAM). Australia topped the list with 35.69 mha. At more than a million, the country also had the most number of organic farmers — over a third of the nearly 2.8 million across the world.