The 2nd-Largest Food Exporter is VERY Surprising

[cainthegreat]

In case anyone was wondering, dairy and egg exports were in first place, followed by horticultural exports in second place and meat exports in third place for the Netherlands.

[johndii]

These exports include products produced in the Netherlands as well as imported products that are re-exported, often after further processing and adding value.

[toreygonzalez]

Netherlands grows tons of tulips but also imports lots of fresh flowers from around the worls for re-export to western europe. They are also global leaders in greenhouse and hydroponic technology.

[BYD-Gold]

1. Netherlands main export market is Europe, which explain why the value is so high (euro is high).
2. Netherlands is one of the largest shipping route in Europe, standing in the middle of the three largest European economies (U.K/France/Germany) Meaning Netherlands does not just exporting their products, but also other countries products too. Most of the times, it is from a European country to another, like U.K/France products go through Netherlands then go to Germany or vice versa.

[Intreductor]

Netherlands is 2nd food exported by value, 3rd by quantity.

[mateobravo]

In the same way, Singapore is one of tbe greatest 'export' ports in the world. It's a numbers game that includes products that enter the Nethetlands and leave, sometimes with processing, but usually not.

[yolo_burrito]

The Netherlands also produces high dollar value exports non-food exports like cut flowers.

[edubrooke]

Our country is basically a hill-less farm with a couple of cities and the biggest harbor on the continent, so it does make sense somewhat 😅

[Staavetrako]

Warning, this is about exporting. India and china can not be that high on this list as they have 4x more people and need much more food. China has much much more agriculture than the US while also being top 1 in the most different plants including Rice, the most used plant we humans eat but also Spinach, eggplant and now also Potatoes and carrots. Same goes to India who often is on second place where China is on first but sometimes is before them like in dry beans or Onions.

[only-vans]

WWII is the reason why Netherlands produces so much food.
Germans almost starved the Dutch people to death in the 1940’s.
Dutch government swore that will never happen again.
Shout out to the Dutch for being resolute and productive ❤

[yeeyee]

USA and China has about the same amount of agricultural land but the food grown in China will be priotised to the 1.4 billion Chinese while USA has a population of around 400 million or less.

[HaiLsKuNkY]

It’s the Rotterdam affect, the port is and eu hub and countries from all of Europe export from Rotterdam but on paper they show up as Dutch export

[Weave.seen.this.b]

The US actually pays some farmers to grow nothing.

[fishybusinessco.]

It makes sense. The Netherlands have always had fertile Goodland that is not flooded or damaged yearly.

[aydinsurdyke]

United States?

The state of Illinois makes enough beans a month to feed the entire planet for 30 years

[christianeaster]

The Dutch also grows huge amounts of foods using hydroponics. Where growing things like lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. May produce 1 or 2 crops in soil, hydroponics can easily produce 2 to 3 times that much.

[kentou]

Yup. And the EU was trying to disrupt the Netherlands Farming community. They failed.

[America-First]

Btw… in Europe crossing from one country to another is considered an “export”.

[MrGevander]

Did everybody catch the lie? The clip starts it taking about the US's **FOOD** production, then switches to "agricultural products" to compare the US to all other countries.
You can look it up yourself, like I did, and you'll find that **Germany** is the second largest **FOOD** exporter.
(I'm from a Dutch background. I **know** that The Netherlands biggest export is **tulips.**)

[tdhawk]

The EU has been trying hard to destroy the agricultural industry of the Netherlands. God bless the farmers and others that have resisted this insanity.