Why the Dutch Lead the World in Agriculture Exports 

Not convinced

Tell the idiots who think that Ukraine feeds the world this.

T he re-exporting part is kind of. a cheating .

Definitely a sophisticated ponzi scheme. See you Masterworks for getting exposed in a year or so

Scam

I went a little more into this in the “How the Netherlands Helps other countries with their water problems” video. I almost brought up the brackish water potato which actually tasted salty but I got tons of comments that it actually ended up being a scam.

@@GeographyGeek yeah salt resistance is still kind of a holy grail for students to work on. Some of my friends worked on it 6 years ago but with cucamelon if I recall correctly it's a Melon tasting grape sized fruit that is relatively salt resistant and actually tastes a bit salty. They weren't able to grow it in salty enough soil

Try telling idiots who think Ukraine feeds the world and the usa have Ukrainian people's interests in their hearts when all their resources are sold to american corporations.

China has managed to cultivate salt resistance rice and due to the variant has enlarged the planting area of rice.

@@stevenliew2507 China is full of shit.

Mostly just high intensity animal farms though. There is no reason we need to grow and export 4 times as much meat as we consume ourselves.

@The Countess Since the disruption in global supply chains with COVID and the Russian invasion of a key food commodity producing country in Ukraine the issue of food security has been bumped right up the agenda again. Environmental pressure groups need to be mindful that curtailing production of food in Europe to address Environmental concerns is now looking like a cop out that will impact on food availability and prices. A more reasonable science based approach with all elements of the food supply chain working to reduce the overall environmental impact is required. Targets must remain with heavy financial penalties for missing them, but solutions need to be flexible and not ideologically driven. If the beef production on the Netherlands requires less carbon emissions than say Brazil, Argentina or Texas then why should Dutch farmers curtail production while Brazil and Argentina ramps up exports to Europe? Makes no sense from an environmental or food security perspective.

@@joemulhall5202 Feeding less grain (or corn or soya) to livestock actually leaves more food for humans, lowering overal food prices. This is particularly true for the high intensity farms that are fed feedstock derived from human quality food regularly. Exactly the type of farms that the Dutch government is targeting.

@The Countess agree. A grass based system and carefully management of fertiliser and effluent from animals is probably the most sustainable. Requires land though.

Ok leave the EU. Dork

They aren't. Stroopwafel prices are higher than ever.

@@alonglostmemory1908 LOL

It’s a country full of clogs.

And for Americans, all of your adjectives are in opposite 😂😂😂

You know what we did before we invented GMO's? For the longest time we irradiated plant seeds, looked at what came out of that, selected the ones with desirable traits and interbreed them with other irradiated seeds with other desirable traits. Now instead of selection for random mutations caused by radiation damage, we can accurately select what gene's to change, and that's when people freak out? SMH. GMO's have their problems, but they are more related to patent system abuse by giants like Monsanto then with the technology itself.

of course. the experts in stealing land. This government could never do it btw since it"s too expensive and trhe people of Indonesia paid for all of that So Rutte can better drink his beer while its still cold .

Raise the North Sea dam!

There was also that one idea to build a Mountain, just so that people would stop calling it flat

@@vozran2149i though that's why they didn't give Limburg to the Flemish during the Belgian revolution?

Last few days it came to light the Heineken lied about stopping business in Russia and not only that, they launched 61(!) new products (they only had like 36 before the war), so lets drop Heineken. Hold a Kasteel instead.

there is no success in making a crop completely tasteless as been proven with tomatoes.

No you are a NIMBY since the countryside is filled with farmers who are being attacked by your kind

@@gvi341984 If you read what l wrote you will see l did not express a personal view but made general observation but no matter. If you watched Attenborough n tv tonight you will have heard that we as a nation are nature deprived. Much of that is the result of farming rather than development. The Netherlands is far worse because of intensive agriculture. I am the opposite of a NIMBY. We have not been building enough housing for decades. Everyone blames politicians but it’s the attitudes of the well housed which is to blame. Try to engage constructively in your comments

I'm glad that the British invented the world.

@@markvanderknoop131 If you are in London some time visit Park Road East and West by John Nash. They are the worlds first recognizable suburban streets of detached houses for people of middle incomes with gardens, dating from the 1820s. It’s an attempt to bring a little bit of the country into the town. The modern world really begins in the 1760s when what we now call the Industrial Revolution started. Ironically it happened in a country which regrets probably regrets it. The Arts and Crafts movement is a socialist ideology which wanted people to go back to the land. Try learning something instead of indulging in crude and stupid nationalism

That is only 20 percent of the flower market. Soya is turned into bacon Grain it turned in baby formula. The big money maker is seed valley. Coppert Cress. Small volume and high price.

Like what? Just for curiosity

No matter they import to export it afterwards. The thing is doing business to make money. And that's what the Dutch do very well !!!

Thank you! Same to you!

Agreed. Im at Cornell which is supposed to be #2 in those world rankings; the gap is embarrassing.

Well they missed the influence farming has on the environment. That was because of their focus on increasing production not on studying side effects. Industry promotes science and influences their work. So they failed in their scientific independence.

my Canadian greenhouse guy gets all his flower starts flown in from Holland! And the greenhouses here in BC have many Dutch first or second generation farmer/owners.

@@j.a.b.nijenhuis8124 Oh yes, I fully agree! And do not get me wrong, I live in the south and enjoy the 'Loonse en Drunense duinen' reserve in all seasons. And remember when it was used by the military as practice area for tanks and rough terrain vehicles. And environment activists wanted the military out of this precious area. And I must say, it's rather scary to be chased out by a tank after ignoring the red flags... But those tanks did plow the sand and kept the area open, rejuvenated the heath by destroying the old brickie plants. After the military went out, the sands compacted and large areas were covered with heather, the heath turned into high grassland, and the grass into forest, a natural process. Now 'Staatsbosbeheer' is working with full power to chop big forest areas, plowing the compacted sands, and removing the grasslands. Restoring the area into what it was when the military left. The large heath areas like Stabrechtse heide are not grazed anymore, or much less, by sheep, so grass and trees are taking over. Farmers used to harvest the heather to be used in their stables as dry floor for their cattle. Together with the dung it created good manure for the fields. That isn't done anymore. We changed our behavior and the 'non agricultural' areas adapted to the new circumstances. But we hate nature so much that we do not want to allow this. So we try to turn back time and restore the areas the way they used to be when farmers, soldiers, lumberjacks (ab)used them. And yes, I do appreciate the biodiversity and unique features these areas provide. The Biesbosch can only remain a Biesbosch when we harvest the reeds and clip the willows for their twigs, we have to burn down the old reeds to allow young good reeds to develop. But that will disturb the Polish beavers, that we introduced into this area. Thus a no go! Trees are growing into the sky, creeks are filled with slick collected by old reeds, and boats are not allowed in, so the area changes into a mud filled moor. But again, we do not like that and have to find ways to preserve the looks. Meanwhile thatchers have to import foreign reeds for roofing... Think about that! I am not against nature or environment protection, support it with full heart, but also want to have a good look on what we have created, how to maintain it, where we are going with sustainability, for our natural areas as well as agriculture, recreation and living. If we do not, wolves and bears will return. Oops...

Actually, not sure about the wheat but the other two are used to create alcohol to be mixed in with (car) fuels. The pigs receive food that is made from the silage that remains. As far as nitrogen pollution and breaking EU norms is concerned, this is in fact nothing other than a political choice. A national political choice to be exact, because it was our parliament that set a norm that was based on designated offenders who received a permit. A judge ruled that the permit system did not conform to the law and it was leftist politicians that translated this into an overall ban on building activities because those belong to the initial designated offenders as well. What needs to be noted here is that closing farms will not change this. The only thing that will solve this issue is to raise the ridiculously low individual limits to a sane level, which is obviously what they will 'discover' some day in the future but can be done today as well and even without closing the farms this will still get us below the intended national limit because we never went above it in the first place.

@@WhoStoleMyAlias The political choice that led to the nitrogen crisis, was the VVD lifting restrictions on animal stock and encouraging farmers to radically expand.

@@jasper53366 You missed the part where it said that even if you stop all farming this will still require building activities to be granted a permit which is what the judge declared illegal.

@@WhoStoleMyAlias It said also something about leftist politicians, even though they haven't been in power since 2002.

Can.you explain please??

@@ArthurTheLibraryDetective there is a big part of dutch agricultural export that is upgraded agricultural import...

@@ArthurTheLibraryDetective It's a little bit covered up. Netherlands companies buy products all over Europe pack it sell it/export it as it's own.

Agriculture according to my high school studies here in Kenya includes both animal husbandry and crop farming

We build a lot of Dutch greenhouses in your country

@@dimrrider9133 in Kenya too?

@@danielmbugua2789 My collega did a long time ago

Thank you!

And 5 golden medals for the not so tall Dutch SHORTtrackers on the Worldchampionchips in S. Korea.

@@peterdevalk7929 Still, my ideal superwoman is Dafne Schippers. There should be a statue of her in every city in Netherlands.

Every Dutch lady I know in Canada is tall , slim, with very little body fat. And hot, no matter their age.

Yeah our steroids and doctors are also world class All of those ice skaters and runners on on that good shit if you know what I mean

@@TheSuperappelflap If you’re making accusations, you need to back them up with proof. Otherwise, you’re babbling.

With manure mostly, sometimes with added nutrients, but most crop farmers use crop rotation to prevent soil from getting depleted from nutrients. Some crops aren't harvested at all but 'shuffled under' to replenish the soil, and also a stretch of land will be left fallow. Some farmers have gotten pigs to rut on fields after harvest to improve it's soil texture (to open it up after machines have compacted it) so it's easier for insects and worms to do their thing in breaking plant material and manure down and replenish the nutrients. The pigs are then culled and sold to specialist restaurant as free-range pigs. They are very yummy as they literally lived their whole live outside and 'working' - so very dense in muscle mass and lower on fatty tissues than regular farm pigs. Monsanto farming methods are frowned upon by most farmers in the Netherlands, as it requires lots of artificial fertilizer and will deplete the soil. It is also heavily geared towards mono-culture, which is desastrous for sustainability. Crop rotation cycles and manure brought on from nearby cattle farms, with the farms then acquiring some of the crop rotation harvests in return (lupine, maise) seems to be the go-to method at the moment, in reducing costs and increasing sustainability.

You need a better screen 😂

It's still the case

Farming was heavily subsidized in the Netherlands after the European common market smaller farmer quit as prices lowered and subsidies lowered some its the passion for farming that is deep rooted in the Dutch that goes back to the1200 s

Spot on

Also clever with a lot of other "things"! WIFI, BLUETOOTH, the most sophisticated chipmachines are build in the Netherlands. Not in China or USA.

Enjoy it while it lasts. The people are very actively trying to get rid of the agriculture in the Netherlands..

@@realmadridsi i dont think they are going to succeed. The resistance is to strong. The EU tries but wont succeed.

Working on dialing back sponsors. Have a couple obligations I need to fulfill first.

@@GeographyGeek Don't apologize for sponsors! This content is free to watch but not to make.

I may do that on my second channel. National Park Explained

@@GeographyGeek omg thank you. I live in jasper and have done a project about the geography project of the area. It’ll be amazing to see what you make!

That's only for animal produce.

@@georghuppertz5727 it isn't. It's also about the use of fertilizer and the moment of harvesting.

@@georghuppertz5727 Most of the farmers are involved in both agriculture and live stock culture together. Because both are strongly related to each other. I know it because I am a farmer from a south asian country. ( it is also an agriculture rich country)

@@jamestabi2032 I'm Dutch as well, even though my name does not sound Dutch. I follow the new on this issue closely. The recent court cases have banned building new houses, because there is too much nitrogen emission near the construction sites, the main emitter being farm animals. House construction is about 0,01% the nitrogen emission of farming, so a slight reduction in farm would make a huge impact.

@@georghuppertz5727 If any one really cares about Climate change than the top target country should be USA. Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy. On average, one American consumes as much energy as 2 Japanese 6 Mexicans 13 Chinese 31 Indians 128 Bangladeshis 307 Tanzanians 370 Ethiopians. The invasion, war, terrorism, hundred thousands of bombing world wide by USA also disastrously effects on the climate. Attack on agriculture will cause global famine what criminal billionaires like Bill Gates, Soros want.

Swiss

To your second point: while it's true that the English "East India Company" predates the Dutch VOC (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, aka United East-India Company), the point in the video was that the Dutch VOC was the first *publicly traded" company in the world. The EIC was owned and operated by the crown of England, while our VOC was wholly funded by private investors who, being shareholders, had a say in how the company was run. That was literally unprecedented. And just to nitpick on your first point: it doesn't matter whether it's 1 river or 10, wherever they fork and create a swamp-like environment to eventually flow into the sea is called a delta. There are exceptions to the flowing into the sea part though, for example the Okavango delta in Botswana does fork and ends it's flow into wetlands, but the water doesn't go into the sea.

To be fair America is more like a union of 50 underdeveloped country's in a trenchcoat.

@@marcosburgos8415 that always was the plan, though the idea of development was a few decades away

As a Dutchman I can hardly argue with you on this point. While our greenhouse grown tomatoes are just as nutritious as the home-grown garden variety tomatoes, I will agree they're less tasty. That's because tomatoes need sunlight and lots of it to properly develop their flavour. Frankly our chilly and moist Dutch climate isn't up for the task and the only reason we're able to grow tomatoes here at all is exactly because of those greenhouses, it simply wouldn't be possible otherwise. That said, again due to those greenhouses and other innovation we are able to grow a higher yield of tomatoes (and other vegetables) per acre of land, using less water, less fertilizer and less manual labour doing so. So we're able to produce more fresh fruit and vegetables at lower cost. But every advantage has it's drawbacks obviously.

@@RudyBleeker Agreed. It's called a trade-off - or, as I used to say "it's nice to be young, healthy, rich and handsome, but sometimes you have to give up on this or that" ;-) Also, just to clarify my earlier comment - it wasn't meant as bashing Dutch produce ("agricultural products"), but as a counterpoint to overly enthusiastic (IMO) and kinda one-sided narrative in the video. In short - "kudos to them Dutch farmers, but I'd rather choose Spanish peppers and Moroccan tomatoes" - sorry guys, no hard feelings.It's just like with oral sex - it's just a matter of taste ;-)

India and China are largest producers of food Inter work with rank 2 And 1 reap.

@@RudyBleeker Tijd om eens in de kassen te gaan werken dan want wat je zegt raakt kant noch wal.

probably there is a lot of interest on this product and people in " black suits " need to profit from it to.

that almost all biodiversity got derstroyed and we hsve to live in one of the most polluted regions of Europe because of the poison the agriculture industy uses is of course a small price, right?

It's because of the policies envisioned by Sicco Mansholt. For nearly 40 years after WW2 he had an enormous impact on first Dutch and then EEG (now the EU) agricultural practices. During WW2 he was a resistance member involved in moving food produce from the northern polders in North Holland (where he had a farm) to Amsterdam. Right after WW2 he was appointed as minister for agriculture. Things like the 'milk lake' and the 'butter mountain' - incredible amounts of dairy stock shipped all over Europe and to Africa and back again, excess produce thanks to his policies in subsidising farming and promoting ever higher yields in farming - all to prevent another hunger period. He turned his policies around near the end, much to the chagrin of Dutch farmers who had gotten used to a steady income of subsidies regardless of their yields. His policy change culminated in the flooding of an enormous portion of agricultural land in the east of the Dutch province of Groningen, the Oldambt Lake. He did his best to reduce agricultural yield so individual profits became higher, since without subsidies, the prices for agricultural produce were so cheaply bought that farmers couldn't live off their profits anymore. Farmers are land and tool rich, but you can't eat clay nor tractors.

If you're referring to the video from 4:28 to 4:44 then that's definitely not the Netherlands. You can tell from the signs at the fruit stalls, they don't resemble any form of Dutch writing. I'm sure those images are to illustrate the point that Dutch fruit and vegetables are exported all over the world, even to countries with climates much more suitable to grow these kinds of products themselves.

in Portugal in the region of Alentejo and North there is a lot of fertile land, cheap and with good availability of water with rivers, dams and good distribution of rainfall all year round. The Portuguese emigrated because there was no money in the country to invest in agriculture. Who has money to invest in the fertile lands of Alentejo and North are a good way. Portugal has good roads, internet coverage, machinery, good quality public health. The main crops typical of that region are Wheat, Rye, Chicory, Canola, Chia, Pistachio Nuts, Almonds, Fruits such as Peaches, Pears, Apricot, Apricots, Raspberries, Blueberries. Portugal is wonderful. you can invest in bringing used tractors from Germany to resell in Portugal the prices are much more expensive, profit margin of 200% with good sales...❤🇵🇹❤🇵🇹❤🇵🇹.......