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Smaller potato and seed onion crops

According to the first results of the Agricultural Survey 2009, the area used to grow ware potatoes has shrunk in 2009 relative to one year previously. The sand and peat soil areas used to grow ware...

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Uncertainty analysis of mineral excretion and manure production

Since the beginning of the nineties, standard factors for manure production and nutrient excretion per livestock category have been determined by the Working group on the Uniformisation of the...

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More insight into mobility with the doughnut map

Statistics Netherlands, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, developed a new visualisation method to gain insight into mobility. This method has been applied to data on jobs of employees.

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Households pay two-thirds of environmental taxes

The polluter-pay principle does not always apply.

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International trade; Imports and exports of services by country, 2003-2013

Imports; exports; services broken down into various types of services Countries

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The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020

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

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Methods for calculating the emissions of transport in the Netherlands

This report describes the methodologies, emission factors and relevant activity data that are used to calculate the emissions of environmental pollutants from mobile sources in the Netherlands.

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Well-being differs between men and women

On a number of aspects, the well-being of men in the Netherlands is higher than that of women. For example, men are more likely to rate their own health as good or very good. Women do better than men...

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Nitrogen emissions into the atmosphere

Nitrogen emissions into their atmosphere consist mainly of ammonia (NH3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).

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Asparagus cultivation 66 percent up in north of Limburg since 2000

The area used for growing asparagus has risen by 1,230 hectares (nearly 60 percent) since 2000 to more than 3,300 ha in 2014. Statistics Netherlands announced today that asparagus cultivation spread...

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Farmers reduce use of fertilizers

Over the past two decades, farmers have been increasingly successful in reducing phosphate fertilization, while crop yields remained the same or even improved. The effectiveness of...

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Dutch economy more sustainable

The Dutch economy is becoming more and more environmentally sustainable.

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Nutrient surplus in agriculture

Output and value added in Dutch agriculture have increased in recent years, while the surplus of nitrogen and phosphorus has decreased.

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SEEA ecosystem condition account for the Netherlands

The condition account provides information on ecosystem quality and pressures following the UN SEEA EEA guidelines (system of environmental-economic accounting – experimental ecosystem accounting).

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Environmental efficiency

Less pollution with similar or higher levels of economic production and growth, i.e. greater environmental efficiency in production processes, is a central theme in green growth.

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Water tax proceeds marginally up again

In 2008, water board authorities estimate to receive more than 2 billion euro in taxes, an increase by 2.2 percent relative to one year previously.

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Fewer potatoes and onions

Farmers expect the potato crop to be 8 percent lower in 2005 than in 2004. This means they will lift some 4,8 billion kilos of ware and seed potatoes.

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Poor potato and onion crops

Dutch potato farmers are expected to lift a total amount of 4.3 billion kilograms of potatoes in 2006. This is 5 percent less than in 2005 and the smallest crop since 1998.

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Domestic exports to the United Kingdom down by 17 percent

In the first ten months of 2020, exports of Dutch-manufactured goods to the United Kingdom amounted to 14.5 billion euros.

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