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In 2022, the agricultural nitrogen surplus, i.e., that part of excess nitrogen which is not fixed in animal and plant products, increased by 6.5 percent year on year to a total of 312 million kg.

Tap water use, groundwater, surface water, industries, private household. Water use or abstraction by industry and type of water

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).

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 agricultural area utilised for the cultivation of protein crops in the Netherlands stood at 9 thousand hectares in 2018,, an increase of 38 percent relative to 2008 (5.6 hectares).

Brussels sprouts exports have risen most significantly among the winter vegetables.

In 2018, one-quarter of the 754 ha of pumpkin cultivation area is in Flevoland province. The total pumpkin cultvation area has declined in most provinces. Pumpkin trade was slightly higher...

An increasingly large proportion of cocoa purchased by Dutch cocoa processing companies is certified sustainable according to the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.

The number of greenhouse vegetable growers decreased by 85 percent between 1980 and 2017.

Dutch quinoa imports has tripled in the past four years, to approximately 5.5 million kg in 2016.

The number of strawberry growers was reduced by nearly half between 2006 and 2017.

The number of flower bulb farms has decreased by 40 percent since 2000.

Asparagus production grew again in 2016, especiallyl in southwest Noord-Brabant and north Limburg.

Organic farming has grown in the past ten years.