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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/

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...

TeeWEE 2y 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.
- tropin 2y ago
  A quick Google search says Spanish yearly tomato production is 4x - 5x bigger than Netherlands'. I don't think your example, albeit possible, is correct.
- pdinny 2y 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 2y ago
  I usually see tomatoes from Spain in stores (Austria)
mattashii 2y 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 2y 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.

tropin 2y ago
A quick Google search says Spanish yearly tomato production is 4x - 5x bigger than Netherlands'. I don't think your example, albeit possible, is correct.
pdinny 2y 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 2y ago
I usually see tomatoes from Spain in stores (Austria)

mattashii 2y 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.