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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).

The size of the organic farming sector increased again in 2018.

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.

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

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Agricultural income per annual work unit has declined in 2018; by nearly 11 percent relative to 2017.

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

In Q3 2020, net electricity production was 3.8 billion kWh higher than in Q3 2019.

Organic farming has grown in the past ten years.

Dairy sector turnover has risen by 30 percent on average over the past three quarters

The share of grazing cattle increased again last year, with 71 percent of the dairy herd grazing outdoors against 65 percent in 2016.

Farmers whose partner also works on the farm have larger farms than single farmers or farmers who run their farm without the help of their partner.

Nearly two thirds of the dairy farms headed by a farmer aged over 55 have a successor lined up. This means that succession in a dairy farm is twice as popular as succession in an average farm.

There were 73 thousand agricultural and horticultural enterprises in the Netherlands on 1 April 2009. This is 3 percent less than twelve months previously.

In 2007, there were more than 600 farms in the Netherlands where people in need of help and care can find a suitable way to spend the day or participate in farming activities. The number of care...

On 1 April 2010, there were 72 thousand farms and horticultural enterprises in the Netherlands, a reduction by more than 1 percent relative to the same month last year. This reduction is the smallest...

In 2008, more than 11 thousand farm successors were ready to take over an agricultural or horticultural holding; 8.5 percent of them were women, as against 6.8 percent in 2000.