Agricultural good to the tune of € 90.3 billion were export in 2018 , representing a slight rise of 0.2 % on 2017 ( € 90.1 billion ) . The Netherlands is the second largest agricultural exporter in the world , after the United States , as is evident from research commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture , Nature and Food Quality and carried out by Wageningen Economic Research ( WUR ) and Statistics Netherlands ( CBS ) .
A sizeable balance of Dutch agricultural products is export to Germany ( € 22.8 billion ) and Belgium ( € 10.2 billion ) , with these two neighbouring countries together making up 36 % of all Dutch agricultural exports . They are followed by the United Kingdom , France , Italy and Spain . The great absolute step-up in Dutch farming exports in 2018 pertain to Japan ( + € 110 million ) , Morocco ( + € 93 million ) , Poland ( + € 86 million ) , Russia ( + € 77 million ) and China ( + € 66 million ) .
Minister for Agriculture , Nature and Food Quality Carola Schouten : ‘ Export figures once again show that the Dutch agriculture and gardening sphere is a major thespian when it come to producing food for a growing existence population . We ’re keen to put our expertise and powers of innovation to good consumption to make the modulation to rotary husbandry . This will give a rise to the agricultural innovation in the Netherlands that continue to bolster our attitude on the worldwide market . And that ’s urgently need , in opinion of the planetary issues vis - à - vis grow requirement for intellectual nourishment on the one hand and our duty for the landscape , biodiversity and mood change on the other ’ .
The story state that farming exports father some € 45 billion for the Dutch economy last year , a figure obtained by taking the exportation note value of the agricultural goodness and subtract the import note value of goods and services required to produce and export these . The immense bulk of this ( € 41.5 billion ) pertained to production of Dutch bloodline , with a fraction ( € 3.5 billion ) encompassing good initially import and subsequently being export after limited processing in the Netherlands . The Netherlands bring in most from horticulture ( € 6.0 billion ) , dairy and eggs ( € 4.7 billion ) , substance ( € 4.1 billion ) and vegetable ( € 3.8 billion ) . Similarly , preparations hold in cereal , flour and milk , beverage , yield , live animals and fish and seafood soften billions of euros for the saving .
Goods colligate to agricultureLast year the Netherlands export € 9.2 billion of goods tie in to agriculture , such as agricultural machinery , machinery for the food industry , glasshouse materials , fertiliser and plant life protection Cartesian product . This represents an increase of 3.2 % on 2017 . Here too neighbouring country Germany and Belgium were the biggest buyers . This growth is entirely down to an increase in the export of products of Dutch origin .
Knowledge and innovationThe latest information on research and growing unwrap that caller in the agricultural business carried out more inquiry and intersection maturation in 2016 than they did in 2014 . The agricultural sector ’s R&D expenditure has risen , both in an inviolable sense and in terminal figure of the dimension of overall outlay on technological foundation . Whereas the R&D consumption of all Dutch company with in nimiety of 10 employee increased by near 11 % , that of companies in the agricultural sphere grew by around 19 % ( from € 728 million to € 864 million ) .
Circular agricultureMinister Schouten published her vision of round agribusiness last year . She will be propagating this vision over the next few days during Grüne Woche ( ‘ Green Week ’ ) , the major international agriculture patronage show held in Berlin each year . Within this context , WUR and the CBS formulated three visual sense for closing the intellectual nourishment - fertiliser bike at worldwide , European and internal level . They subsequently limn the effect of these vision for Dutch import and export current , thereby provide some initial point on what round agriculture could look like . In the causa of the global sight , for instance , it holds that for plant food exportation it will be possible to keep the mineral balance within the current standard and that the sphere will be able to keep achieving current production level , sum up value and export execution .
Source : Government.nl
