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Despite the coronavirus crisis, Dutch agricultural exports grew by an estimated 1 percent in 2020 relative to the previous year.

In the first six months of 2020, the Netherlands imported 1.6 billion kg of soybeans from Brazil.

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.

Agricultural exports in 2018 were worth an estimated 90.3 billion euros, i.e. 0.2 percent up on 2017. While exports rose, prices dropped relative to 2017.

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

Duch agricultural exports reached a record high in 2017.

Over the period 1950-2015, the production value of Dutch agriculture increased more than tenfold.

Dutch exports of agricultural products to Germany rose by nearly one-quarter between 2010 and 2015.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS) describes recent developments in globalisation.

Since 1 January 2014, people from Bulgaria and Romania no longer need a work permit if they want to work in the Netherlands. As a result, the number of Bulgarian and Romanian job-seekers coming to...

The export value of goods covered by Russian boycott amounted to more than 500 million euros in 2013. The Netherlands earned approximately 300 million euros and about 5,000 jobs were involved.

One in three Dutch enterprises faces financial obstacles. It is harder for them to get credit and loans and debtors pose an increasing risk. For the next twelve months enterprises mainly expect to...

The total asparagus-growing area in the Netherlands has increased substantially since 2008 by 450 hectares (18 percent) to more than 2,900 hectares.

The average retirement age of employees had risen to more than 63 years in 2011.

The Dutch economy grew by 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared with the same quarter in the previous year. This second estimate of economic growth is 0.1 of a percent point higher than...

Between 2000 and 2008, the use of chemical pesticides in vegetable growing, in the open and under glass has dropped sharply.

The share of employees in the Netherlands who say they want to work until they reach the age of 65 years has doubled in the space of four years: from 21 percent in 2005 to 42 percent in 2009

Last year, 30 percent of all agricultural and horticultural enterprises in the Netherlands were small-scale businesses.

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

Last year's sickness absence rate for Dutch employees averaged 4.3 percent. The lowest rate was recorded among people employed in agriculture. Since 2004, the sickness absence rate in the Netherlands...

Over 9 300 bankruptcies were pronounced in 2004. This is 7 percent more than in 2003. The increase occurred mainly among natural persons (private individuals with or without single-owner company)....