Price Index numbers (excluding excise) and month and year development Market and product according to product nomenclature ProdCom
Manure production, nitrogen and phosphate in manure, nitrogen losses Manure processing, manure exports and manure use
Pronounced bankruptcies Type of bankruptcy, sector/branches (SIC 2008)
The Netherlands in Numbers, 2020 is the successor to Trends in the Netherlands and the Statistical Yearbooks and Pocket Books.
In 2020, the gross seed onion yield declined by 4 percent relative to the previous year. The gross yield of ware potatoes remained virtually unchanged.
Area and yield per crop Province
Agricultural census; crops, livestock, land use and corresponding number of holdings by general farm type and region
Cultivation of protein crops such as alfalfa, field beans and soybeans has decreased this year.
In 2020, the agricultural area devoted to arable crops in the Netherlands fell by 0.3 percent relative to the previous year.
Listed monuments Type of monument, province, municipality
In 2019, the volume of labour deployed in the Dutch agricultural sector was equivalent to over 156 thousand full-time jobs (FTEs).
In 2018, drinking water consumption by Dutch households increased by 7 percent relative to one year previously. The agricultural sector used considerably more water than in 2017 (150 percent).
Dutch arable farmers achieved a record harvest of the cereal varieties wheat and barley.
In 2018, sugar beet yields were lower in nearly all countries of the EU-28 than one year previously. In the Netherlands, the yield per hectare was down by 18 percent.
The size of the organic farming sector increased again in 2018.
Agricultural income per annual work unit has declined in 2018; by nearly 11 percent relative to 2017.
Between 2000 and 2016, emissions of particulate matter (PM10) by the agricultural sector increased by 3 percent. In this period, the value added of agriculture increased by 19 percent.
Between 2000 and 2016, emissions of particulate matter (PM10) caused by Dutch business activity fell by more than 41 percent, while GDP increased.
yield, cultivation area fruit variety, region
The cultivation area for sugar beets in the Netherlands grew by 21 percent in just one year.
Price index numbers (excluding excise) and month and year development Market and product according to product nomenclature ProdCom
Dutch agriculture has improved conversion of nutrients from feed and fertilisers into animal and plant products.
Over the period 1950-2015, the production value of Dutch agriculture increased more than tenfold.
Organic farming has grown in the past ten years.