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Milk supply by dairy farms, production of butter, cheese, milk powder, concentrated milk and whey powder

The number of dairy cows in the Netherlands fell by 1.9 percent to 1.54 million in 2024, compared to 2023.

Agricultural census; crops, livestock, land use and corresponding number of holdings by general farm type and region

In 2023, the total utilised agricultural area (UAA) under organic farming increased by 6.6 thousand hectares relative to the previous year. This is an area equivalent to over 9 thousand football...

A total of 10 percent of farmers and farm managers in the agriculture sector are under the age of 40 according to new figures for 2025.

The number of pigs in the Netherlands fell by 5.1 percent to 9.96 million in 2025, compared to 2024.

Meta description (max. 320 tekens) Recent data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 Zero hunger. Under the terms of SDG 2, nobody in the world should have to go hungry in 2030; everyone should...

The total amount of nitrogen excreted in animal manure in 2024 was 449 million kilograms, 3 percent less than in 2023

In 2024, 449 million kilograms of nitrogen compounds were emitted in livestock manure, a fall of 3 percent compared with the previous year.

At 1.57 million, the national dairy cattle herd remained virtually unchanged in 2022. This is 7 percent less than five years earlier.

The Dutch area of the North Sea is our country’s largest nature reserve, but it is also used intensively by maritime traffic and for wind farms, for example.

In 2023, the area of agricultural land used for bulb cultivation increased by 21 percent to over 28 thousand hectares compared with 10 years previously.

biological control agents/farms with use/area treated/number of agents crops

In 2021, most types of agricultural emissions were lower than in 1995, in spite of higher agricultural output. Reduction of greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions has stagnated in recent years.

Relative to 2021, the total area under organic farming in the Netherlands this year has increased by 3.6 percent to slightly over 80 thousand hectares. This is 59.0 percent more than in 2015.

The share of organic food sales in the first half of 2025 was 3.5 percent of total food spending in Dutch supermarkets (820 million euros).

A total of 21.7 thousand tonnes of mussels were cultivated in 2024, nearly 30 percent less than in 2023.

The number of sheep in the Netherlands fell by 61 thousand (-8.4 percent) in 2023 compared to the previous year

In 2023, the Dutch agricultural sector generated 6.7 percent more income relative to the previous year. Animal output decreased slightly (-0.7 percent), while crop production saw a relatively sharp...

In 2024, flower bulbs were cultivated over an area of arable land of more than 27 thousand hectares.

The Netherlands exported agricultural goods with a total value of 128.9 billion euros in 2024

Agricultural census; number of persons, annual work units and corresponding number of holdings by region

Manure production, nitrogen and phosphate in manure, nitrogen losses Manure processing, manure exports and manure use

Livestock on agricultural holdings with a Standard Ouptut >= 3000 euro, grazing livestock and housed animals at 1 April and 1 December

area and yield per crop province