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The share of women in agriculture fluctuates around one-third of the total number of persons employed in that sector.

The number of greenhouse vegetable growers decreased by 85 percent between 1980 and 2017.

Every dwelling that forms the entire property. This includes detached houses, semi-detached houses, farms with dwellings and all terraced houses.

A collection of animals, birds, reptiles, fish, dolphins, safari park, nature park etc accessible to the public, excl. animal shelters, children's farms, deer parks or travelling show.

Livestock cattle, position of dairy cattle and cattle for fattening according to Agricultural Census and Earmark registration

In 2021, the agricultural area in the Netherlands devoted to arable crops increased by 1.8 thousand (0.3 percent) to 529 thousand hectares.

Heat obtained by cooling of just milked milk on farms.

Gas mainly derived through active fermentation of organic material from waste water purification in manufacturing industries and fermentation of organic waste at farms

Livestock pigs, number of piglets, sows and boars in April and December

The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020 is the successor to Trends in the Netherlands and the Statistical Yearbooks and Pocket Books.

In 2020, electricity production from renewable sources increased by 40 percent year-on-year.

Listed monuments Type of monument, province, municipality

In 2020, renewable energy accounted for 11.1 percent of total Dutch energy consumption.

Exploration of potential sources to collect data about the use of secondary materials at the request of the Dutch environmental assessment agency.

The Dutch dairy goat herd keeps growing. As of this year, the herd size stands at 476 thousand, i.e. 4 percent more than last year.

The Dutch environmental sector represented a value added of 18.8 billion euros in 2019, contributing approximately 2.3 percent to gross domestic product (GDP).

In 2007, 95 percent of dairy and pig farms in the Netherlands had provisions to store semi-liquid manure for six months or longer.

In 2020, net electricity production was 1.3 billion kWh higher than in 2019, reaching the highest level ever measured.

The number of farms and horticultural businesses in the Netherlands decreased substantially in the period 1995-2009. Labour volume in this sector and agricultural income also fell.

The number of agricultural holdings in the Netherlands has fallen dramatically over the past fifteen years from 120.1 thousand to 76.7 thousand, a declining rate of 55 a week. In the period...

In 2019, the volume of labour deployed in the Dutch agricultural sector was equivalent to over 156 thousand full-time jobs (FTEs).

Non-agricultural activities like agro-tourism, nature conservation and care provision are becoming increasingly popular among farmers and market gardeners.

Last year, 70 percent of dairy cows were grazed, approximately the same proportion as in 2011. In the period 2001-2011, the proportion declined by a few percent almost every year.