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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/Yea...

Such journalism...




According this this 80% of the exports are manufactured in the Netherlands: 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.


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.


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-pe...


I usually see tomatoes from Spain in stores (Austria)


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.




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