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Exports of agricultural goods are estimated to have reached 104.7 billion euros in 2021, setting a new record.

The Netherlands Climate and Energy Outlook 2021 (KEV) is a joint publication by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, TNO Energy Transition, Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the Netherlands...

In the period January-August 2021, fresh food exports to the UK declined in value by 193 million euros year-on-year.

In 2021, the pig herd in the Netherlands was slightly reduced year-on-year to almost 11.4 million.

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

Phosphate production in livestock manure declined further in 2018

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

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 2019, nitrogen excretion in animal manure decreased by 2.6 percent on the previous year, to 490 million kg. This is below the nitrogen oxides emission ceiling that has been imposed on Dutch...

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

The number of pig-producing farms has decreased by 12.0 percent from over 4 thousand in 2019 to 3.6 thousand in 2020.

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

Cultivation of protein crops such as alfalfa, field beans and soybeans has decreased this year.

Calculation of the level of manure production and minerals excretion by Dutch livestock.

Since 2003 there has been an almost constant level of manure production and excretion of nitrogen and phosphate.

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).

The number of goats in the Netherlands has increased this year.

Agricultural exports amounted to an estimated 94.5 billion euros in 2019. This is 4.6 percent more than in 2018 and the highest level on record.

Organic farming has grown in the past ten years.

Greenhouse gas emissions stood at 189.3 bn CO2 equivalents in 2018, 2 percent lower than in 2017 and 15 percent down on 1990.

The value, expressed in monetary terms, of the total yield of a livestock or crop minus certain specific costs.