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According to Statista this is just a statistical anomaly as a result of the Netherlands having such large port facilities - the agricultural products are import

According to Statista this is just a statistical anomaly as a result of the Netherlands having such large port facilities - the agricultural products are imported to the country and then exported elsewhere in Europe, which artificially bumps up the export statistics without any correlation to the actual production amount. Which makes a lot more sense, because even an efficiently-run farming sector surely couldn't be so efficient that it can produce almost as much as the US despite being 1/50 the size. If you look at actual agricultural production the Netherlands isn't at the top of anything - the best they're doing is world #5 in cheese production.

huytersd 3y ago
This makes a lot more sense. In no universe can Netherlands compete with the output of the US and China.
paradox460 3y ago
The Netherlands are actually 237x smaller than the United States, not 50x smaller
getwiththeprog 3y ago
ASML? (but that is not agricultural)
pipodeclown 3y ago
The explanation I have always been given is that we're quite large in very high value agricultural products such as flowers and that is what bumps up the export figures (measured in monetary value of the exports)
AlecSchueler 3y ago
It makes me curious, is there anywhere we can see the figures accounting for point of production?
qazadex 3y ago
Re-exports are only 1/3 of their total exports - it's still incredibly impressive to have such high production for such a tiny country. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2024/10/dutch-agricultural-exports-worth-nearly-124-billion-euros-in-2023 https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2024/10/dutch-agricultural-exp...
flavius29663 3y ago
According to WorldBank[1], they import $36 billion and export $26 billion worth of food [1] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Year/2020/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/all/Product/16-24_FoodProd https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea... Such journalism...
- mattashii 3y ago
  It depends on what you count, as "agriculture exports" could (probably do) also include, apart from food items: - Agricultural machines - Seeds - Agricultural patents on e.g. seeds - Fertilizers - non-food plants (flowers etc.) - (Animal) vaccins - other agricultural products processed ("produced") in the Netherlands And if you count those by value, then it is certainly possible that NL gets a large share of world exports by value: other countries like Germany may produce more, but if they don't export the valuable products it won't show up on world export stats.
- TeeWEE 3y ago
  According this this 80% of the exports are manufactured in the Netherlands: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2016/23/nederland-tweede-landbouwexporteur-ter-wereld https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2016/23/nederland-tweede-lan... Things like vertical food farms, huge greenhouses, intensive farming help us become (one of) the biggest - milk and milk powder producer - apples (apples in South Africa are likely to come from the Netherlands) - tomato’s in Spain come from the Netherlands Etc etc.
  - pdinny 3y ago
    Apples in South Africa are not likely to come from the Netherlands. SA exports about $736m in apples and pears, imports about $284k, not from the Netherlands. https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/apples-and-pears/reporter/zaf https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/apples-and-pe...
  - taskforcegemini 3y ago
    I usually see tomatoes from Spain in stores (Austria)
mcv 3y ago
This makes sense and is probably true, but Netherland still hits well above its weight in agricultural production; production is extremely intensive, and very high for the land area. From what I understand, Wageningen University of Agriculture is world class and has for a long time been pushing the limits of agriculture. Of course whether such intensive agriculture is actually a good idea is another matter; we've got quite some pollution issues here, and aren't exactly known for the tastiest produce.
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y7 3y ago
I don't think this is a matter of merely re-shipping the same products. For example, if you look at poultry, the Netherlands imported 240 M€ worth of live poultry and exported 2300 M€. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/25/the-netherlands-is-the-eu-s-largest-meat-exporter https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/25/the-netherlands-is-the...
aaron695 3y ago
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huytersd 3y ago

This makes a lot more sense. In no universe can Netherlands compete with the output of the US and China.

paradox460 3y ago

The Netherlands are actually 237x smaller than the United States, not 50x smaller

getwiththeprog 3y ago

ASML? (but that is not agricultural)

pipodeclown 3y ago

The explanation I have always been given is that we're quite large in very high value agricultural products such as flowers and that is what bumps up the export figures (measured in monetary value of the exports)

AlecSchueler 3y ago

It makes me curious, is there anywhere we can see the figures accounting for point of production?

qazadex 3y ago

Re-exports are only 1/3 of their total exports - it's still incredibly impressive to have such high production for such a tiny country. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2024/10/dutch-agricultural-exports-worth-nearly-124-billion-euros-in-2023 https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2024/10/dutch-agricultural-exp...

flavius29663 3y ago

According to WorldBank[1], they import $36 billion and export $26 billion worth of food [1] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Year/2020/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/all/Product/16-24_FoodProd https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea... Such journalism...

mattashii 3y ago
It depends on what you count, as "agriculture exports" could (probably do) also include, apart from food items: - Agricultural machines - Seeds - Agricultural patents on e.g. seeds - Fertilizers - non-food plants (flowers etc.) - (Animal) vaccins - other agricultural products processed ("produced") in the Netherlands And if you count those by value, then it is certainly possible that NL gets a large share of world exports by value: other countries like Germany may produce more, but if they don't export the valuable products it won't show up on world export stats.
TeeWEE 3y ago
According this this 80% of the exports are manufactured in the Netherlands: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2016/23/nederland-tweede-landbouwexporteur-ter-wereld https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2016/23/nederland-tweede-lan... Things like vertical food farms, huge greenhouses, intensive farming help us become (one of) the biggest - milk and milk powder producer - apples (apples in South Africa are likely to come from the Netherlands) - tomato’s in Spain come from the Netherlands Etc etc.
- pdinny 3y ago
  Apples in South Africa are not likely to come from the Netherlands. SA exports about $736m in apples and pears, imports about $284k, not from the Netherlands. https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/apples-and-pears/reporter/zaf https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/apples-and-pe...
- taskforcegemini 3y ago
  I usually see tomatoes from Spain in stores (Austria)

mcv 3y ago

This makes sense and is probably true, but Netherland still hits well above its weight in agricultural production; production is extremely intensive, and very high for the land area. From what I understand, Wageningen University of Agriculture is world class and has for a long time been pushing the limits of agriculture. Of course whether such intensive agriculture is actually a good idea is another matter; we've got quite some pollution issues here, and aren't exactly known for the tastiest produce.

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y7 3y ago

I don't think this is a matter of merely re-shipping the same products. For example, if you look at poultry, the Netherlands imported 240 M€ worth of live poultry and exported 2300 M€. https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/25/the-netherlands-is-the-eu-s-largest-meat-exporter https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/25/the-netherlands-is-the...

aaron695 3y ago

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