This happens with a few more countries. For example I've also seen it under a video where they tasted Greek food, where the comment section was full of Greek people talking Greek or saying it wasn't prepared correctly. But yes, we do.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is ranked as the #1 in Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Food in the world. It's all about building strong collaborations between the private - and public sector. Together we achieve more! Groetjes uit Nederland! :)
@@angelorou2234 Als ze geen verkeers regels kunnen volgen is het niet jouw schuld als ze onder de auto liggen. Dat je het even weet. P.S. Vergeet hun informatie niet om je verf schade en deuken te fixen ;-D (niet zo moeilijk als ie eronder ligt)
The Dutch are an impressive people!!! More respect and attention should be given to them since they are accomplishing so many great things. -- With love and respect from an anti-communist Vietnamese
ToiYeuYAHWEH I would argue that the Vietnamese are a lot like the Dutch, with an agriculturally centred economy and a history of trying to stay neutral. You’re gonna become the Netherlands of Asia, Im sure of it
hoe bedoel je soms??, wat is er mis met nederlanders, zijn bang om hun liefde voor hun land te laten zien, terwijl we in de top10 beste landen ter wereld zitten (van paspoort dat je wil), maar 45 jaar linkse gedachten goed en linkse propaganda op scholen hebben trosts zijn op je land tot iets vies gemaakt!.
+S Dew Ik krijg de indruk dat je übehaupt niet naar school bent geweest. Het Nederlandse onderwijs bevordert namelijk kritisch denken, en focust daarbij op dingen die mis zijn in onze en de wereldsamenleving. Er ligt nog steeds een nadruk op hoe Nederland staat in de wereld, maar dat is kennelijk niet zo nationalistisch als jij wenst dat het is.
@@SDeww ik zou met "soms" bedoelen dat ik me niet bepaald trots voel als ik naar dit soort geleuter moet luisteren. Domme rechtse bullshit. We mogen trots zijn als we dingen doen zoals beschreven in deze video (en nog meer) maar ik schaam me rot als ik naar domme xenofobe landgenoten moet luisteren.
Vertical farming is the future. Also, you forgot to talk about their university/college that specialises in agriculture ... its like the Harvard of farming. Vox or Vice or one of those types of youtube outlets did a great short doc. on it. Edit: The short doc is called: Why The NETHERLANDS is the World's AGRICULTURE leader?
I love it when at the start he mentioned food for the first time but the clip is actually showing tullip fields. I know lots of our grandparents had to eat tulips bulbs to not starve during WW2 but this is going to far lol
NietTristan, I'm a Kiwi who lives on a culturally diverse street (with sweet as friendly neighbors), in one of the world's most culturally diverse cities. And this is my only response: YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH NAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
@@C0deH0wler I live in a country with the biggest highest muslim population in the world, and they hate us ( non-muslim ). My respond to them :fffffuck.
As the son of a Canadian Soldier that fought his way to Bergen Op Zoom And was wounded, I totally understand the need for the Netherlands Never to fall into what it was in 1944. You honor him with your accomplishments And freedoms .
Very interesting ... Perfection has no limits ! It's worth a look ! *Diligence + advanced technology = Triumph and well-deserved success ! Thank You dear Tom Gibson ! Special thanks dear Bloomberg ! Vl'ado. Nov 02,2018
had the opportunity to go and visit the netherlands several times. have always been impressed by their organisation. it's perfect...almost too perfect. Dutch people are à bit like scandinavians. Ahead of their time
America is a whole other story. The Netherlands has very expensive land, so farmers have to use every square inch and are forced to innovate to be able to compete. In America land is very cheap and they just use big scale strategies to lower the prices.
@@timo3724 The problem with that is it is ultimately unsustainable. The Ogalla Aquifer for example in the Mid West might be depleted by 2040. They need innovation to make it sustainable.
From 1960 to 2000 we spoiled the gas ,everything was possible and now there’s nothing left. The norwegians did a much better job with their natural resources. At the time they couldn’t handle all the wealth from the gas and made a lot of stupid decissions, and now the gas is all but gone en the next generations are left with no gas and high taxes. Like brandon from 90210, he had millions and now he’s selling cars for a living. That’s what happened to the netherlands.
@@xxjeroen You have no idea what you are talking about. Comparing the natural recources of the Netherlands to those of Norway is laughable. Norway has amounts of natural recources in their ground that the Netherlands never had. Norway has much more oil than the Netherlands. Besides that, we did not run out of gas. We stopped using gas because of the earthquake problems in Groningen. There is still gas in our soil but we decided not to use it anymore for the sake of our people/inhabitants.
I commando, The Netherlands is still an agricultural expert/leader. We have the most advanced agricultural university's and techniques. And we are still the second largest agricultural exporter in the world. So things have not changed for the worse. They've only become better.
@@RobinJanssen976 The only reason the growth happened was due to lobbying from universities and farmers. Left parties such as SP and GroenLinks wanted to cut budget a long time ago. Hence my comment that we need ministers that are fights for their branch which will only happen when you put a someone from that sector into the Tweede kamer.
As mentioned: the gas bubble we found is in the upper north province of Groningen (Greenings if you translate from old Dutch) and the bottom is quite instable now. Houses there are going down and some are even collapsing. Indeed agriculture flourished because of the gas bubble, but because of this problem, we have to convert to new systems in the greenhouses. Also, global warming starts to be a big issue, and despite the discussion, the conversion starts as well now. The Netherlands had the dryest year in two centuries and probably since Roman times. Large parts of NL are below sea level and great parts of soil are made of peat. If that dries up, the peat just rots away, causing the ground to sink away. The Netherlands is going down, sea levels are rising and we need to innovate even more to keep our country floating again. Where Americans have tons of land to retreat on, we do not. The battle continues and the quest for our country starts all over again.
@@sixmagpies well, the current government is quite business minded for a decade now and not that interested in those issues. Even the national climate agreement is for all citizens exept companies. Quite worrisome :o
Wtf "kilograms" of milk? You aren't wrong for using kg but since we're talking about a fluid it'll be beter to talk about liters not kg. But atleast it's still better than gallons and ounces
They are correct. A kilogram is a measurement of mass that is constant, while a litre is a measurement of volume. The kilogram is a constant value that doesn't change depending on the state of the milk (frozen, liquid or gas). So if you were to measure the number of litres they produce, it would depend on what state it is stored at. If 1 kilogram of milk is frozen, it could take up 1 litre of volume.
I'm Dutch and I can proudly say.. Bloomberg once again has their numbers off. We're number 2 mostly due to exporting expensive agricultural stuff that's either not edible (like flowers) or has low nutritional value but is valuable (strawberries in the winter for example). So we're second in *value*. The rest, from what I know or could check is more or less correct. Famine, state funding, optimization.. For some reason I couldn't find the 4L water per kg of strawberries, but there are a ton of programs about reusability going on an a *lot* use strawberries in greenhouse so, probably true
@bloomberg the picture 1:40 taken from the village (taken from a plane) is where i live, my house isn’t even build yet. Where did you find it? I would really like to have it, I have never seen it before.
Kwint je kan in je locale archieven kijken. Veel steden hebben een archief, waar erg veel fotos, verhalen en registers in staan. I hope you'll find what you are looking for!
18,370 km2 agricultural area of which 59.1 km² are covered by greenhouses, that's 1/310.82sd or 1/311th of the total agricultural land area. While Dutch population is 17.08 million (2017). Total land area is 41,543 km2. This leaves 21,173 km2 for non-agricultural purposes. American population is 350 million which is 20.49 times of the Dutch population.
You have not mentioned the issues relating to the Groningen gas field. The Dutch government decided in January 2014 to the cut output. There has been a growing risk and thus concern about the amount of damage to properties due to earthquakes. In March 2018 the government announced it would shut down the gas extraction entirely by 2030 for safety reasons. Some say too little too late. But what is not explained is the effect of less cheap fuel for those green houses. Maybe something you can report on?
The greenhouses need electricity for their growthlights and operations, they also need heat to achieve optimum growingconditions andthey actually use a fair amount of CO2 to turbo charge plant growth. As a large concentration of these greenhouses exists between Rotterdam and The Hague and the port of Rotterdam hosts major industrial complexes it was decided to build a vast undergound network of pipes which transports excess heat (warm water), CO2 from the plants to the greenhouses and of course there’s plenty of electricity generating capacity in Rotterdam. So shutting down the gas extraction might have a marginal price effect, it won’t be an existential threat to the greenhouses
They do. Thousands of students from all over the world are studying at the main agricultural university. Flanders, the Rhineland and China are among the first regions in the world to copy the methods used in the Netherlands.
Before the Germans invaded, there was a push to reclaim land for farming. Nord-Ost polder was created, but Flevo-polder where Leylestad is located, had to be put on hold due to the war.
Yes, Bloomberg is wrong about that part. The Netherlands started this not after World War 2, but after The Great War. The Dutch couldn't import the food it needed because of that war, which let to starvation.
Well food shortages in WW1 are the fault of the allies so of course its a touchy topic. Still, they are right that WW2 did bring a new focus and urgency to the measures, didnt it?
@@hjalmar4565 wrong Netherlands rich becouse colonised Indonesia for 350 year, and Netherlands got everything from Indonesia, Netherlands with voc build agriculture like sugar, tea, coffee and other, meanwhile Indonesia become poor country becouse colonised and kill so many people in Indonesia, right know so many ex plantation from Netherlands in indonesia, Indonesia hate Netherlands until now
@@thomasprent2179 No USA give us civilzation, ducth only want natural resources and that make ducth reach in that time with voc, colonised is suck like ducth colonised by Nazi that make ducth more civilzation
I find the final comment quite disturbing. Instead of checking our population growth, some people want to solve the problem with tech and are ignoring all the other implications on our habitat by ever growing numbers of humans.
I find more disturbing the fact that you want to stunt the growth of population. I find this whole over-population argument very anti-human, most of all because it isn't grounded on facts.
@Remsey the universe we live in is infinite, there's space for everyone. We'll surely figure it out, but stunting our growth as a species is a bad solution. The food that goes to waste in developed countries could end world hunger.
Maybe you mean agrarian society? And yeah, many Indonesians used to work on agriculture sector as low tech farmers but it already changed, many people work on industry and services sector now XD
You forgot to mention that time when we produced so much milk that thousands and thousands of litres had to just been thrown away because there was way to many. This resulted in the government putting a cap on how much milk each farmer was allowed to produce.
4:07 i think you got the calc wrong... The numbers are closer to 27liters/kg of tomatoes! (and approx. 2.7 liters/a single fresh tomato!!!) Still, none of this reduces a bit from huge achievement precision irrigation and high-end greenhouses tech, and with latest improvements these numbers could even drop lower :)
@@CharDhue WTF are you talking about? We Vastly outproduce our self and we can easily sustain our self's... It's only gonna be more expensive that is all.
@@CharDhue The rioting will probably be in the rest of Europe in that case. If the NL gets closed off from the outside world, that means the Port of Rotterdam is closed off for Europe. That's a whooole lot of fuel and stuff that ain't going in or out of Europe.
@@CharDhue You say feed, I say Sustain. The difference? You talk about a singular need. I talk about sustaining a independent nation as a whole. That includes food... Also if we stop exporting it is more than likely you that will be hungrier. We supply at least a quarter of the world with food. The only food we import for the most part is luxury foods items (chips, candy, cheeses, Ben&jerry's icecream, etc...)
The Dutch don’t grow much wheat and rice, the ground is way too wet. The Dutch have been importing wheat from other countries at least since the 15th century (which did allow them to focus on more specialised products, such as milk, cheese and hemp),
@@renze7133 also, the famous VOC (Dutch East India Company) made most of it's money from wheat from Poland and Russia, importing to NL in the 17th century. It made the spice conquering in Indonesia possible...
@@renze7133 the Dutch colonised Indonesia for 350 year and kill so many Indonesian poeple, and Indonesia becaming slave for Dutch to run plantation in indonesia without payment and push to plain what like ducth like and then built voc to manage plantation in Indonesia like sugar, coffee, tea, rubber and other and the last is gold mining in the papau because USA help the DUTCH then gold mining offer to USA that biggest gold mining in the world, right know so many ex plantation and mining from ducth. That why after Indonesia independent in 1945 the Dutch bankruptcy, because can not colonised Indonesia, even after 1945 the Dutch want go back to Indonesia they fails so many soldier died from ducth even helping the British, the famous is November 10, in Surabaya British invasion Surabaya unfortunately General Malaby pas away during invasion in Surabaya that ftom British not Dutch
muhamad hidayat Please write your comment in understandable english next time. On your thingy about the Indonesian revolution(s), the politionele acties were dutch military victories(even though the Indonesians outnumbered the dutch vastly) the dutch had to give Indonesia independence because of pressure from other countries, as decolonisation was coming up around that time.
America barley import any Dutch agricultural foods also Dutch tomatoes are very inferior to American tomatoes so we don't really want anything from you no offensive.
Ella Picavet the U.S. is the net food exporter even with all the damage "environmentalists" have done to agriculture in the U.S. particularly in California.
@@megadwarf4714 Still inferior in quality and taste compared to their American counterparts also you can grow more variety of fruits and vegetables in the US than the Netherlands because of better climate.
That's truly an incredible feat, given the country's small size. But let me tell you this: I've grown up in a country where 9/12 months of the year the fruits and vegetables we eat are naturally grown, and I've lived in the Netherlands since 2016 where I think almost a 100% of the food at any time always comes from greenhouses. And guess what: it tasted like plastic compared to the real deal. Tomatoes that crunch like apples, peppers that are picked to be visually perfect, yet have 0 to no taste, the fruits aren't any better either, and so on and so on.
Well thats what you get for paying little money. There certainly are tomato producers for example that do put more nutrience/minerals in to get better tasting tomatoes but obviously its more expensive. If its made for profit it will always be made cheaper.
@@Jerbod2 I am not an expert, but it does not sound logical that it has to do with putting in more nutrients and minerals. I think it is quality of (DNA in) seeds.
@@ronaldderooij1774 Nope, it's genuinly mostly that, although the genes probably have something to do with it. That's the very reason that putting proper compost or manure under plants makes them far more tasty. A very sterile piece of land without any of that would result in far less appetising food. It's an external factor so to speak.
These types of systems are incredibly fragile tho. Farming one crop that requires fossil fuel inputs is probably not going to be the future of farming. It calls for constant work against natural processes. Permaculture and other holistic land management practices are better options for our food production systems.
They are actually changing that process at the moment, biogas installations turn the manure from the dairy farms into biogas which is then used to heat the greenhouses. This also has the extra benefit of not realeasing the methane from the manure into the air because that's a worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Is it a fragile system? It might be, but probably not more fragile than growing crops in the open air.
If you are Canadian you should know that the Dutch have been and still are greatfull for that and showing it. Canadian WWII veterans have been received as heroes ever since and allways will for as long as they may live.
The problem with these hyper efficient farming methods is that they do not contain enough nutrients, the taste also becomes much more bland, generally speaking anyway.
@@therealmiddleground I never said that it is magic, and I honestly do not have enough information about the Netherlands specifically. I am sure that in the future we might be able to solve the equation of having both fast growing crops that also contain enough nutrients.
@@therealmiddleground Except that it is very complicated, getting plants that are able to absorb the amount of nutrients in the specific amount of time is a problem. It is not as simple as you are trying to make it seem, to just: "add minerals".
Too bad Dutch produce tastes so bland; I lived in Rotterdam for a year and felt like killing someone in rage every time I ate a cardboard-tasting salad.
That is because you went to the cheapest supermarket. There is an awful lot of Dutch fruits and vegetables that taste deliciously. But you have to know where to find it. We keep the best for ourselves, and sell blandly tasting food to expats who stay here for just a while.
@Prince Charles Scandal? Haha, no. Dutch had a bad image in Germany, but are much better now. But German people still think Italian or Spanish tomatoes are more "natural", but in reality Dutch use almost no chemicals anymore. And their tomatoes tastes much better now. The resellers put them in boxes with Spanish or Italian brands.
@@erikrossen4268 Haha, the sun also shines in greenhouses (glass you know). I had tomatoes growing in my room, tasted great. We also have enough sunshine for tomatoes, summer was very long and warm.
LPyourplay The main point is the Dutch recovery which is a little dishonest since it wasn’t really the Dutch recovery it was the American investment in post war Europe
@@iheartlreoy8134 It was a Dutch recovery who do you think broke their backs day in day out? giving us money in the 50s doesn't mean our achievements are yours.
wouter038 No but it also doesn’t mean that you did everything when it wouldn’t have been possible for your country to have recovered the way it did without the United States, that’s just a fact.
1) Mansvelt has nothing to do with the creation of Flevoland. That started before WW II. 2) The cooperation of the farmers, called NSB, was a main reason for increased productivity. 3) The milking robot did not increase milk production so much. This increase happened mainly before the introduction of the robot. Breeding was much more important. Almost all cows are born with the use of A.I. 4) The combining of private property was an important government program. That can be credited to Mansvelt. However that program resulted in creating large industrial farms, called LOG, around the year 2007. This should have been an ecological solution but of cause it was not. Building enormous stables/barn is not the way to be ecologic. That program stopped luckily. And sadly a lot of agricultur area has been turned into so called nature. Most of Netherlands was and is not nature but shaped by the Dutch. Nothing wrong with that. See the landscape around Kinderdijk. All created by the Dutch and very beautifull and full of wildlive.
Dutchman Syndrome:
- Whenever and wherever Dutch is mentioned, loads of Dutchmen will comment they're Dutch.
Jep
We're proud people and happy to be recognised on international levels
I’m Dutch 😛
I am bored
This happens with a few more countries. For example I've also seen it under a video where they tasted Greek food, where the comment section was full of Greek people talking Greek or saying it wasn't prepared correctly.
But yes, we do.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is ranked as the #1 in Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Food in the world. It's all about building strong collaborations between the private - and public sector.
Together we achieve more!
Groetjes uit Nederland! :)
Yes. .. Thank you for an eye opening... Of unite n conquer!!!!
Groetjes uit Wageningen :)
kut wageningen ede is beter
@@angelorou2234
Als ze geen verkeers regels kunnen volgen is het niet jouw schuld als ze onder de auto liggen. Dat je het even weet.
P.S.
Vergeet hun informatie niet om je verf schade en deuken te fixen ;-D
(niet zo moeilijk als ie eronder ligt)
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G E K O L O N I S E E R D
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Ik ga jou maagden eiland koloniseren
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@@Justicsgenie geen *
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The Dutch are an impressive people!!! More respect and attention should be given to them since they are accomplishing so many great things.
-- With love and respect from an anti-communist Vietnamese
import some cute Ladyboys and we'll help ya out ;)
Business as per usual, or better, that is how it used to be. We seem to be somewhat in decline.
You finna get arrested for this comment tho nguyen
ToiYeuYAHWEH dankjewel
ToiYeuYAHWEH
I would argue that the Vietnamese are a lot like the Dutch, with an agriculturally centred economy and a history of trying to stay neutral. You’re gonna become the Netherlands of Asia, Im sure of it
they went sicco mode
This a way way way underappreciated comment
We always go sicko mode
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Vol sicco mode makker! Groetjes uit Nederland :)
Yay The Netherlands
Toch wel beetje trots op Nederland
Soms mag je wel trots zijn op ons landje!
hoe bedoel je soms??, wat is er mis met nederlanders, zijn bang om hun liefde voor hun land te laten zien, terwijl we in de top10 beste landen ter wereld zitten (van paspoort dat je wil), maar 45 jaar linkse gedachten goed en linkse propaganda op scholen hebben trosts zijn op je land tot iets vies gemaakt!.
+S Dew Ik krijg de indruk dat je übehaupt niet naar school bent geweest. Het Nederlandse onderwijs bevordert namelijk kritisch denken, en focust daarbij op dingen die mis zijn in onze en de wereldsamenleving. Er ligt nog steeds een nadruk op hoe Nederland staat in de wereld, maar dat is kennelijk niet zo nationalistisch als jij wenst dat het is.
@@SDeww ik zou met "soms" bedoelen dat ik me niet bepaald trots voel als ik naar dit soort geleuter moet luisteren. Domme rechtse bullshit.
We mogen trots zijn als we dingen doen zoals beschreven in deze video (en nog meer) maar ik schaam me rot als ik naar domme xenofobe landgenoten moet luisteren.
Achja all dat voedsel gaat straks toch naar de "oorlogs vluchtelingen" die zich voort planten x5
Vertical farming is the future. Also, you forgot to talk about their university/college that specialises in agriculture ... its like the Harvard of farming. Vox or Vice or one of those types of youtube outlets did a great short doc. on it.
Edit: The short doc is called: Why The NETHERLANDS is the World's AGRICULTURE leader?
It is the university of Wageningen.
@@joenie Bingo.
And the video that was talking about it was: "Why The NETHERLANDS is the World's AGRICULTURE leader?" by VisualPolitik EN
At 2:52 the boy says "Just as usual: three glasses of milk a day" *wink*
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*Thanks a lot.
@@youssrahadri8442 r/woooosh
I love it when at the start he mentioned food for the first time but the clip is actually showing tullip fields.
I know lots of our grandparents had to eat tulips bulbs to not starve during WW2 but this is going to far lol
Shut up about it lmao it aint no problem
too*
Those are hyacinths, and the bulbs are poisonous.
(A blue tulip would be world news!)
The Dutch never cease to amaze me in both their innovations and tenacity 😃
So proud of my country secretly! Let's make our country and the world a better place everyday!
@@ToiYeuYAHWEH Not as much of a problem as people think. But don't worry. That will be solved soon enough.
NietTristan, I'm a Kiwi who lives on a culturally diverse street (with sweet as friendly neighbors), in one of the world's most culturally diverse cities. And this is my only response: YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH NAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
@@C0deH0wler I live in a country with the biggest highest muslim population in the world, and they hate us ( non-muslim ). My respond to them :fffffuck.
Including tons of poison & manure "shared" with the nature, channels & North Sea?
@@willhemwill5595 they hate you not because you're not a muslim, but because you're descendants of Invaders
As the son of a Canadian Soldier that fought his way to Bergen Op Zoom And was wounded, I totally understand the need for the Netherlands Never to fall into what it was in 1944. You honor him with your accomplishments And freedoms .
Thank you for your father’s service! 🌷
I am sitting in my bed right now in Bergen op Zoom, thank you for fathers service :)
Your father is a hero, thank you for the everything your father and all does other canadian heroes have done for my country❤❤❤
Bloody hell. Some countries are really advanced
just come to the university of Wageningen and you can learn everything there is to know about it.
Nice mix of technology, innovation, and hard work to make it a reality
From Brazil..Admiro o Povo Holandes.. Admirável País! Congratulations 🙌👏👌
Very interesting ... Perfection has no limits ! It's worth a look ! *Diligence + advanced technology = Triumph and well-deserved success !
Thank You dear Tom Gibson !
Special thanks dear Bloomberg !
Vl'ado. Nov 02,2018
*IMPRESSIVE COUNTRY*
SohaiL Rehman thanks :)
@@dutchigamemania And what exactly did you do to propel our country into the 21st century Lourens...
@@Nyxeme not being a hater like you.
Why thank you
This is the result when there is a national commitment between the private sector, the people and the government.
had the opportunity to go and visit the netherlands several times. have always been impressed by their organisation. it's perfect...almost too perfect. Dutch people are à bit like scandinavians. Ahead of their time
How can they be ahead of their time when its all today??
Imagine if America ever did this for its people.
yeah, if only
Lol they can barely talk about universal healthcare before starting a civil war. I doubt their bureaucracy would try this.
they will, for their cattle
America is a whole other story. The Netherlands has very expensive land, so farmers have to use every square inch and are forced to innovate to be able to compete. In America land is very cheap and they just use big scale strategies to lower the prices.
@@timo3724 The problem with that is it is ultimately unsustainable. The Ogalla Aquifer for example in the Mid West might be depleted by 2040. They need innovation to make it sustainable.
Back when the Netherlands had actual experts as its ministers instead of trained politicians.
How things has change for the worse. Sad
I Commando
Atleast we are not starting war with other countries
From 1960 to 2000 we spoiled the gas ,everything was possible and now there’s nothing left.
The norwegians did a much better job with their natural resources.
At the time they couldn’t handle all the wealth from the gas and made a lot of stupid decissions, and now the gas is all but gone en the next generations are left with no gas and high taxes.
Like brandon from 90210, he had millions and now he’s selling cars for a living.
That’s what happened to the netherlands.
@@xxjeroen You have no idea what you are talking about. Comparing the natural recources of the Netherlands to those of Norway is laughable. Norway has amounts of natural recources in their ground that the Netherlands never had. Norway has much more oil than the Netherlands.
Besides that, we did not run out of gas. We stopped using gas because of the earthquake problems in Groningen. There is still gas in our soil but we decided not to use it anymore for the sake of our people/inhabitants.
I commando,
The Netherlands is still an agricultural expert/leader. We have the most advanced agricultural university's and techniques. And we are still the second largest agricultural exporter in the world. So things have not changed for the worse. They've only become better.
@@RobinJanssen976 The only reason the growth happened was due to lobbying from universities and farmers. Left parties such as SP and GroenLinks wanted to cut budget a long time ago. Hence my comment that we need ministers that are fights for their branch which will only happen when you put a someone from that sector into the Tweede kamer.
As mentioned: the gas bubble we found is in the upper north province of Groningen (Greenings if you translate from old Dutch) and the bottom is quite instable now. Houses there are going down and some are even collapsing. Indeed agriculture flourished because of the gas bubble, but because of this problem, we have to convert to new systems in the greenhouses. Also, global warming starts to be a big issue, and despite the discussion, the conversion starts as well now. The Netherlands had the dryest year in two centuries and probably since Roman times. Large parts of NL are below sea level and great parts of soil are made of peat. If that dries up, the peat just rots away, causing the ground to sink away. The Netherlands is going down, sea levels are rising and we need to innovate even more to keep our country floating again. Where Americans have tons of land to retreat on, we do not. The battle continues and the quest for our country starts all over again.
Je hoeft het niet uit te leggen hoor, iedereen in de comments hier is toch Nederlands
I'm a Kiwi, but mostly Dutch at heart. So you are half right :)
But, hey, you're already started doing something about those problems too. That is the Nederland.
@@sixmagpies well, the current government is quite business minded for a decade now and not that interested in those issues. Even the national climate agreement is for all citizens exept companies. Quite worrisome :o
@@joehoe222 Yes, worrisome. Is Holland's national government being sucked into the EU's global governance agenda?
Mainstream is not talking about the Dutch farmers
I live on the largest manmade island in the world :)
Je bedoelt flevoland zeker 😊
@@kaassaus4230 nee hij bedoelt Amsterdam.. Zucht
What is the name?
@@arifali6762 flevoland
Gecondoleerd
We have to save the soil for our next generation
Wtf "kilograms" of milk? You aren't wrong for using kg but since we're talking about a fluid it'll be beter to talk about liters not kg. But atleast it's still better than gallons and ounces
They are correct. A kilogram is a measurement of mass that is constant, while a litre is a measurement of volume. The kilogram is a constant value that doesn't change depending on the state of the milk (frozen, liquid or gas). So if you were to measure the number of litres they produce, it would depend on what state it is stored at. If 1 kilogram of milk is frozen, it could take up 1 litre of volume.
@@Stormfox93 As matter of fact liquid milk is more dense than frozen milk, as milk is basically water.
@@Quintinohthree That would mean that mass is lost when it changes from liquid to frozen, which is against laws of nature.
@@Stormfox93 No, it means that water expands when it freezes. You do realize ice floats right?
Jaa doe mij maar een kilootje melk en 2 litertjes tomaten A.U.B
1:28 i guess you could say he went "sicco" mode
I'm Dutch and I can proudly say.. Bloomberg once again has their numbers off.
We're number 2 mostly due to exporting expensive agricultural stuff that's either not edible (like flowers) or has low nutritional value but is valuable (strawberries in the winter for example). So we're second in *value*.
The rest, from what I know or could check is more or less correct. Famine, state funding, optimization.. For some reason I couldn't find the 4L water per kg of strawberries, but there are a ton of programs about reusability going on an a *lot* use strawberries in greenhouse so, probably true
Ik ben allochtoon
We are so important yet out government wants us gone, sad times
nice. Thanks heaps for this.
Trots op mijn Nederland!
this is insane. if they can optimize efficiency so well, why can't every other country?
because they lack the scientific knowledge or are willfully ignorant to science
Slow and steady can win the race, too. Most of the world is fed by farms under 5 acres!
@bloomberg the picture 1:40 taken from the village (taken from a plane) is where i live, my house isn’t even build yet. Where did you find it? I would really like to have it, I have never seen it before.
Make a screenshot on your computer, crop out the picture using paint or whatever and the do a reverse image search on google. That might do the trick
the memunist tried that but no hits also never seen this before
Ambamja done this but no luck
Crop it out en dan gwn reverse image search
Kwint je kan in je locale archieven kijken. Veel steden hebben een archief, waar erg veel fotos, verhalen en registers in staan. I hope you'll find what you are looking for!
There are so many greenhouses here that it stays kinda light at night around my place. I'm really proud of what my country did!
Oh no! Government intervention in the farming industry?! Look at the chaos and inefficiency they wrought!
funny thing is that when you look at EU farming subsidies is that the Dutch farmers are at or near the bottom every year.
This super-intensive agriculture is what's making me willing to migrate.
18,370 km2 agricultural area of which 59.1 km² are covered by greenhouses, that's 1/310.82sd or 1/311th of the total agricultural land area. While Dutch population is 17.08 million (2017). Total land area is 41,543 km2. This leaves 21,173 km2 for non-agricultural purposes. American population is 350 million which is 20.49 times of the Dutch population.
So, what are you trying to say?
Thank you! Interesting video 🙌
You have not mentioned the issues relating to the Groningen gas field.
The Dutch government decided in January 2014 to the cut output. There has been a growing risk and thus concern about the amount of damage to properties due to earthquakes. In March 2018 the government announced it would shut down the gas extraction entirely by 2030 for safety reasons. Some say too little too late.
But what is not explained is the effect of less cheap fuel for those green houses.
Maybe something you can report on?
The greenhouses need electricity for their growthlights and operations, they also need heat to achieve optimum growingconditions andthey actually use a fair amount of CO2 to turbo charge plant growth.
As a large concentration of these greenhouses exists between Rotterdam and The Hague and the port of Rotterdam hosts major industrial complexes it was decided to build a vast undergound network of pipes which transports excess heat (warm water), CO2 from the plants to the greenhouses and of course there’s plenty of electricity generating capacity in Rotterdam. So shutting down the gas extraction might have a marginal price effect, it won’t be an existential threat to the greenhouses
Really now? A report in agriculture in the Netherlands doesn't touch on a completely separate subject? How terrible odd.
great video! Hopefully, they can help developing nations-
They do. Thousands of students from all over the world are studying at the main agricultural university. Flanders, the Rhineland and China are among the first regions in the world to copy the methods used in the Netherlands.
Before the Germans invaded, there was a push to reclaim land for farming. Nord-Ost polder was created, but Flevo-polder where Leylestad is located, had to be put on hold due to the war.
Yes, Bloomberg is wrong about that part. The Netherlands started this not after World War 2, but after The Great War. The Dutch couldn't import the food it needed because of that war, which let to starvation.
Well food shortages in WW1 are the fault of the allies so of course its a touchy topic. Still, they are right that WW2 did bring a new focus and urgency to the measures, didnt it?
@@hjalmar4565 wrong Netherlands rich becouse colonised Indonesia for 350 year, and Netherlands got everything from Indonesia, Netherlands with voc build agriculture like sugar, tea, coffee and other, meanwhile Indonesia become poor country becouse colonised and kill so many people in Indonesia, right know so many ex plantation from Netherlands in indonesia, Indonesia hate Netherlands until now
@@muhamadhidayat8509 well the Dutch did give you civilization tho
@@thomasprent2179 No USA give us civilzation, ducth only want natural resources and that make ducth reach in that time with voc, colonised is suck like ducth colonised by Nazi that make ducth more civilzation
4:35 you can hear they added *they now working to change this* in post production to keep the positive vibes
2:42 Sounds like you picked the wrong accent. We speak Dutch, not Finnish.
Its a hard language, have you heard english speaking dutch
MartinFrostia
Yeah, it’s a bunch better than what this guy did 😄
@@Snoflakes_1 tru dat
The thumbnail makes it look like a whole different revolution
video about the netherlands
dutch ppl arrive because nationalism
:D
No, i arrive because i think its interesting to look at our country through the eyes of a foreigner
Well I was expecting a big food fight when i clicked on this video but atleast ive learned something
I find the final comment quite disturbing. Instead of checking our population growth, some people want to solve the problem with tech and are ignoring all the other implications on our habitat by ever growing numbers of humans.
I find more disturbing the fact that you want to stunt the growth of population. I find this whole over-population argument very anti-human, most of all because it isn't grounded on facts.
its predicted to level out at around 11 billion. Check Hans Roslings Ted talks, he's a UN prof with a great vids about the subject fertility.
@@niluscvp he was, he died last year. He was also member of the Swedish society of deciding who gets a Nobel Prize.
@Remsey the universe we live in is infinite, there's space for everyone. We'll surely figure it out, but stunting our growth as a species is a bad solution. The food that goes to waste in developed countries could end world hunger.
The Netherlands, am so lucky to be a dutchmen
Bet they, the Dutch, don't spent $700 billion on their military.
We spend about $12 billion this year. And that's more than enough.
no, and why would we, we are a lot smaller than the usa and its just a waste of money
The clip of the windmill is playing backwards! (Dutch) windmills always run counter-clockwise when looking at them from the front.
3 glasses of milk a day? Thats probaby why the Dutch are so freakishly tall... That and all the bicycle riding!
don't forget genetics, health care, sports etc.
And don't forget about ice-skating to and from work on a daily basis!
@@AwoudeX and cousins fucking cousins
Proud of my country🇳🇱
They say Indonesia is agricultural Country
It's really ironic the best agriculture Country is The Dutch lol
Maybe you mean agrarian society? And yeah, many Indonesians used to work on agriculture sector as low tech farmers but it already changed, many people work on industry and services sector now XD
You forgot to mention that time when we produced so much milk that thousands and thousands of litres had to just been thrown away because there was way to many. This resulted in the government putting a cap on how much milk each farmer was allowed to produce.
GUTENTAG it was also because the prices were so low that the farmers dropped it on the street.
And today the dutch gov royaly screws farmer
4:07 i think you got the calc wrong...
The numbers are closer to
27liters/kg of tomatoes! (and approx. 2.7 liters/a single fresh tomato!!!)
Still, none of this reduces a bit from huge achievement precision irrigation and high-end greenhouses tech, and with latest improvements these numbers could even drop lower :)
It ain't much if it ain't Dutch 🇳🇱🐄🍺
i love how they got too much milk and their response was to convince people to just consume massive amounts of it
Do something that sucks everyday, that’s how you grow
Yeah, like cycling in the rain or with a strong headwind
Nice to know my nation can sustain itself when its blocked of from the outside world
Can u?
Just enough to feed ur people, probably will incure riot
@@CharDhue
WTF are you talking about? We Vastly outproduce our self and we can easily sustain our self's... It's only gonna be more expensive that is all.
@@BillyBoze i say feed. The other need that u cant provide will incure riot
@@CharDhue The rioting will probably be in the rest of Europe in that case. If the NL gets closed off from the outside world, that means the Port of Rotterdam is closed off for Europe. That's a whooole lot of fuel and stuff that ain't going in or out of Europe.
@@CharDhue
You say feed, I say Sustain.
The difference? You talk about a singular need. I talk about sustaining a independent nation as a whole.
That includes food...
Also if we stop exporting it is more than likely you that will be hungrier.
We supply at least a quarter of the world with food. The only food we import for the most part is luxury foods items (chips, candy, cheeses, Ben&jerry's icecream, etc...)
They need Joris Drie Pinter in the Suez Canal, we'll send him to help out!
Imagine if they had the land size of Ukraine
Incredible
The dutch grow wheat and rice ? Where do they get their staple foods?
Potatoes
The Dutch don’t grow much wheat and rice, the ground is way too wet. The Dutch have been importing wheat from other countries at least since the 15th century (which did allow them to focus on more specialised products, such as milk, cheese and hemp),
@@renze7133 also, the famous VOC (Dutch East India Company) made most of it's money from wheat from Poland and Russia, importing to NL in the 17th century. It made the spice conquering in Indonesia possible...
@@renze7133 the Dutch colonised Indonesia for 350 year and kill so many Indonesian poeple, and Indonesia becaming slave for Dutch to run plantation in indonesia without payment and push to plain what like ducth like and then built voc to manage plantation in Indonesia like sugar, coffee, tea, rubber and other and the last is gold mining in the papau because USA help the DUTCH then gold mining offer to USA that biggest gold mining in the world, right know so many ex plantation and mining from ducth. That why after Indonesia independent in 1945 the Dutch bankruptcy, because can not colonised Indonesia, even after 1945 the Dutch want go back to Indonesia they fails so many soldier died from ducth even helping the British, the famous is November 10, in Surabaya British invasion Surabaya unfortunately General Malaby pas away during invasion in Surabaya that ftom British not Dutch
muhamad hidayat Please write your comment in understandable english next time.
On your thingy about the Indonesian revolution(s), the politionele acties were dutch military victories(even though the Indonesians outnumbered the dutch vastly) the dutch had to give Indonesia independence because of pressure from other countries, as decolonisation was coming up around that time.
Damn these people smart
We grow it, the Americans eat it
Most of it is sold to the the European Union and the UK.
America barley import any Dutch agricultural foods also Dutch tomatoes are very inferior to American tomatoes so we don't really want anything from you no offensive.
Ella Picavet the U.S. is the net food exporter even with all the damage "environmentalists" have done to agriculture in the U.S. particularly in California.
@@mrbrainbob5320 there are more foods than tomatoes you know
@@megadwarf4714 Still inferior in quality and taste compared to their American counterparts also you can grow more variety of fruits and vegetables in the US than the Netherlands because of better climate.
very interesting, i didn't know this thing
my country 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱❤️
*country
@@arhanya8552 hahaha tell em
Nee kijk jouw naam
I am dutch, but i am also korean
0:08
When you mention food, but show tulip (hyacint) fields, that is
- plain stupidity
or
- an insult, referring to the past
Ehm... When you mention stupidity in the same comment that you confuse hyacinth and tulip. Derp.
CGP Grey is going crazy for this video
HOLLAND !
"Use windmills to drain marshlands"
wtf that's fucking genius
And there's still plenty of grass fields. You drive on the highway, and you'll see a lot of unused land.
This land is used to feed livestock and is not unused
why do i feel so proud im not even dutch
That's truly an incredible feat, given the country's small size. But let me tell you this: I've grown up in a country where 9/12 months of the year the fruits and vegetables we eat are naturally grown, and I've lived in the Netherlands since 2016 where I think almost a 100% of the food at any time always comes from greenhouses. And guess what: it tasted like plastic compared to the real deal. Tomatoes that crunch like apples, peppers that are picked to be visually perfect, yet have 0 to no taste, the fruits aren't any better either, and so on and so on.
Well thats what you get for paying little money. There certainly are tomato producers for example that do put more nutrience/minerals in to get better tasting tomatoes but obviously its more expensive. If its made for profit it will always be made cheaper.
@@Jerbod2 I am not an expert, but it does not sound logical that it has to do with putting in more nutrients and minerals. I think it is quality of (DNA in) seeds.
@@ronaldderooij1774 Nope, it's genuinly mostly that, although the genes probably have something to do with it. That's the very reason that putting proper compost or manure under plants makes them far more tasty. A very sterile piece of land without any of that would result in far less appetising food. It's an external factor so to speak.
100% from greenhouses??? Do some research please before making such arguments
Sounds great! But, we need to know what the nutritional values are vis traditional growth and `speed growth`.
Hummmmmm
*it is huge in making food*- shows tulips...
These types of systems are incredibly fragile tho. Farming one crop that requires fossil fuel inputs is probably not going to be the future of farming. It calls for constant work against natural processes. Permaculture and other holistic land management practices are better options for our food production systems.
Timothy Masters ok, solutions?
They are actually changing that process at the moment, biogas installations turn the manure from the dairy farms into biogas which is then used to heat the greenhouses. This also has the extra benefit of not realeasing the methane from the manure into the air because that's a worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Is it a fragile system? It might be, but probably not more fragile than growing crops in the open air.
@@htoodoh5770 no need to sound very hostile.
Mrbrain bob Sorry, wasn't trying to.
@@htoodoh5770 lol he literary mentions permaculture. Food forests could be the future
Crops which are more weather proof and stay ripe on the flower longer all add up to the small leaps we can do to feed the world.
Sometimes I feel low for poor India...
Well you have a nice space agency,. But one may question what that`s worth when the rest of the country still poops on the streets.
😩😩😩
Dutch population is lower than Kanpur and Bengaluru.
YouKnowWhy why?
I also do for my own country
Flevoland is a peninsula, notanisland......
Your welcome from Canada for defeating the nazis and freeing your country
Now you sound like an asshole, as if we've got no choice to like you.
But yeah, thanks Canada!
And some Poles as well ;)
And our own fanatical and brave resistance, as well as our volunteer division.
If you are Canadian you should know that the Dutch have been and still are greatfull for that and showing it.
Canadian WWII veterans have been received as heroes ever since and allways will for as long as they may live.
How modest...
I actually live across de schilde urban farm which is one of the largest of europe
Fantastic, we're the best farmers. Let's get them all bankrupt...
Fantastic !
The problem with these hyper efficient farming methods is that they do not contain enough nutrients, the taste also becomes much more bland, generally speaking anyway.
From belgium gotta say that gteens from the netherlands taste better than those of bwlgium france and the usa. It isn't magic it's called "minerals"
@@therealmiddleground I never said that it is magic, and I honestly do not have enough information about the Netherlands specifically. I am sure that in the future we might be able to solve the equation of having both fast growing crops that also contain enough nutrients.
@@Osvath97 i said that minerals are everything a plant needs for it's nutrients so adding minerals jist readds it time by time
@@therealmiddleground Except that it is very complicated, getting plants that are able to absorb the amount of nutrients in the specific amount of time is a problem. It is not as simple as you are trying to make it seem, to just: "add minerals".
@@Osvath97 it iss plants can absorb minerals and dissolve it very fast especcialy crops
Proud to be Dutch. Just shows that size doesn't matter
Too bad Dutch produce tastes so bland; I lived in Rotterdam for a year and felt like killing someone in rage every time I ate a cardboard-tasting salad.
Couldn't you just add spices?
That is because you went to the cheapest supermarket. There is an awful lot of Dutch fruits and vegetables that taste deliciously. But you have to know where to find it. We keep the best for ourselves, and sell blandly tasting food to expats who stay here for just a while.
@@hminkema If it's such a secret why even say that? Kinda just shows your egoistic nature...
@@Diogatos Thanks for the compliment.
And follow a Dutch Humor 101 course. It's cheap.
@@hminkema No need, you just told me all about it ;) Doesn't change a thing.
Flevoland is even bigger than the picture you showed!
1:03 the Soviets too...
The USSR was part of the Allies.
The Soviets raped themselves forward from one end of Europe, I would not exactly call that liberating.
Dutch deserved it for what they did it in Indonesia. Proud of those Germans.
1. the soviets were part of the allies
2. they didn't really liberate it since they occupied all captured territory
@@jimmylives
Because the Nazis treated others so much better, didn't they?
proud of them i wish if we can do this too
ok, but tomatos from Netherlands are testless and look like plastic. Then the higher production rate is meaningless.
Dutch tomatoes are sold in Germany as Spanish or Italian tomatoes. They love them but don't know they are Dutch.
@Prince Charles Scandal? Haha, no. Dutch had a bad image in Germany, but are much better now. But German people still think Italian or Spanish tomatoes are more "natural", but in reality Dutch use almost no chemicals anymore. And their tomatoes tastes much better now. The resellers put them in boxes with Spanish or Italian brands.
The numbers clearly show otherwise.
@Prince Charles So do something about it instead of travelling around with Camilla.
@@erikrossen4268 Haha, the sun also shines in greenhouses (glass you know). I had tomatoes growing in my room, tasted great. We also have enough sunshine for tomatoes, summer was very long and warm.
Sicco Mansholt went Sicko Mode for food.
Very funny how you only casually mention the Americans role in the Dutch recovery.
Maybe because it wasn't the main point of the video.
LPyourplay The main point is the Dutch recovery which is a little dishonest since it wasn’t really the Dutch recovery it was the American investment in post war Europe
IHEartLReoy of course not, you’re only allowed to say bad things about americans
@@iheartlreoy8134 It was a Dutch recovery who do you think broke their backs day in day out? giving us money in the 50s doesn't mean our achievements are yours.
wouter038 No but it also doesn’t mean that you did everything when it wouldn’t have been possible for your country to have recovered the way it did without the United States, that’s just a fact.
I live in the Flevopolder
1) Mansvelt has nothing to do with the creation of Flevoland. That started before WW II. 2) The cooperation of the farmers, called NSB, was a main reason for increased productivity. 3) The milking robot did not increase milk production so much. This increase happened mainly before the introduction of the robot. Breeding was much more important. Almost all cows are born with the use of A.I. 4) The combining of private property was an important government program. That can be credited to Mansvelt. However that program resulted in creating large industrial farms, called LOG, around the year 2007. This should have been an ecological solution but of cause it was not. Building enormous stables/barn is not the way to be ecologic. That program stopped luckily.
And sadly a lot of agricultur area has been turned into so called nature. Most of Netherlands was and is not nature but shaped by the Dutch. Nothing wrong with that. See the landscape around Kinderdijk. All created by the Dutch and very beautifull and full of wildlive.
And my University is mentioned hooray!!
i did not know this. and i live there.