In case anyone was wondering, dairy and egg exports were in first place, followed by horticultural exports in second place and meat exports in third place for the Netherlands.
These exports include products produced in the Netherlands as well as imported products that are re-exported, often after further processing and adding value.
Exactly misleading information, no matter how efficient the Dutch are at producing food they are not THAT efficient that they can outproduce China or Brazil
@xxAnaconta Not misleading. You answered your own confusion. They’re not second largest producers but second largest exporters. It still gets counted in their export books. And talking about efficiency, Netherlands is hyper efficient in their agricultural. A HUGE portion of agriculture happens under green houses in Netherlands. They’re are the leaders in biotechnology research and the seeds they produce are more valuable then gold. If you cared enough to watch full video you’ll understand
@@thecompanioncube4211 For people not familiar with the difference between production and exports, the video suggests that the Netherland is the second biggest producer of agricultural products in the world.
Netherlands grows tons of tulips but also imports lots of fresh flowers from around the worls for re-export to western europe. They are also global leaders in greenhouse and hydroponic technology.
One of the things I found about the Netherlands while vacationing in Curacao is that they not only continue to support their former colonies financially but maintain "monopiles" on agricultural (food)imports. I learned that from a young man who supplies all of the "ABC "Islands with imported food goods, but they also supply the "Dutch East Indies" and other former colonies, by treaty. Most former "colonial powers", are still extracting resources on the cheap. From their "protectorates". Even if the post WW2, emancipations, gave them "autonomy".
@@machetedonttweet1343we “The Dutch” support the Dutch Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Saba and sint Maarten per year 32 million per island to counter poverty and help create jobs. Curaçao’s and Aruba have a status aparte as we call it, they wanted to be part off the kingdom but no help they are on their own with their own government.
1. Netherlands main export market is Europe, which explain why the value is so high (euro is high). 2. Netherlands is one of the largest shipping route in Europe, standing in the middle of the three largest European economies (U.K/France/Germany) Meaning Netherlands does not just exporting their products, but also other countries products too. Most of the times, it is from a European country to another, like U.K/France products go through Netherlands then go to Germany or vice versa.
They have amazing horticulture and agriculture practices especially for sustainability, they and a few country’s are decades ahead of everyone else in certain areas. American is #1 for restoring natural prairies and ecosystem but Europe is just holding on 😂
In the same way, Singapore is one of tbe greatest 'export' ports in the world. It's a numbers game that includes products that enter the Nethetlands and leave, sometimes with processing, but usually not.
True, but after reading the dutch people comments, it is kinda disappointing how they blindly defend this statement. how can't they differentiate exporter not producer, it is unlikely a population of 17.7 million can output more agriculture product than China or india
Warning, this is about exporting. India and china can not be that high on this list as they have 4x more people and need much more food. China has much much more agriculture than the US while also being top 1 in the most different plants including Rice, the most used plant we humans eat but also Spinach, eggplant and now also Potatoes and carrots. Same goes to India who often is on second place where China is on first but sometimes is before them like in dry beans or Onions.
Good point. I get that it’s a short, but videos like this are generally misleading. I was waiting for a quick explanation that wasn’t said because I’m not interested enough to watch the full video as they’re hoping to hook us into.
Although population is a factor, that is not the expressed point the video is getting at. The food to population ratio is just a face value relation being portrayed. The actual explication being referenced is the technology and innovation that America has invested into agricultural sciences since its founding. They’ve been pouring billions of dollars into their food production techniques and refinement of processes and distribution since the Industrial Revolution and haven’t stopped since. So much so that stealing and smuggling seeds could possibly lead you into the realm of crimes of espionage and treason.
@@Kalumubotia your cheese is exceptional! I really do love it. Every now and then I order a few kg online. 😅 Vegetables (and fruits) in general aren't very taste here. But tomatoes from NL are known for being quite tasteless in Germany. You can't compare them tomatoes in Italy, Spain, Morocco or any other sunny country. It's like eating a whole different kind of vegetable.
WWII is the reason why Netherlands produces so much food. Germans almost starved the Dutch people to death in the 1940’s. Dutch government swore that will never happen again. Shout out to the Dutch for being resolute and productive ❤
USA and China has about the same amount of agricultural land but the food grown in China will be priotised to the 1.4 billion Chinese while USA has a population of around 400 million or less.
The Dutch also grows huge amounts of foods using hydroponics. Where growing things like lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. May produce 1 or 2 crops in soil, hydroponics can easily produce 2 to 3 times that much.
@@aydinsurdyke Yeah... That's a HUGE exaggeration, but the US does produce a huge surplus of staples, most of which goes to 1- Animal feed, 2- exports, 3- ethanol production, and, 4- actual people food. One of the US's primary strategic strengths is it's ability to produce far more calories than it's people could consume (even though there are so many obese Americans- how embarrassing!)... Ukraine has the same strategic advantage (it basically feeds North Africa, which is strange, since, until relatively recently, Egypt was the breadbasket of the Mediterranean world). That strategic value, along with its newly discovered hydrocarbon reserves, are some of the primary reasons that Russia is trying to conquer it! (Ok, I went O/T there, but it's true!)
Did everybody catch the lie? The clip starts it taking about the US's **FOOD** production, then switches to "agricultural products" to compare the US to all other countries. You can look it up yourself, like I did, and you'll find that **Germany** is the second largest **FOOD** exporter. (I'm from a Dutch background. I **know** that The Netherlands biggest export is **tulips.**)
Just because a country is big does not mean it has arable land. Russia, Australia, and Canada are great examples of lots of land but only so much can be farmed. Soil quality as well as capital for fertilizer and equipment also play a role here.😉👍✨
Green house farming using solar panels as roofs as well as composte for dirt can be used for those massive countries especially australia since it doesn't have ultra ling winters in which solar is less effective
@@rezaganjizadeh4263 I agree, you can use newer methods to farm produce. That said it still isn't the same as arable land and traditional farming. The good news with newer techniques like what you described and hydroponics is that it can be scaled up to match the local requirements... to a point. I live in Arizona and what most people will find odd is that there is a lot of farming here in the Sonoran desert. The biggest problem is water and water rights because the way it has been done is not quite in step with our times and current problems. The Colorado River isn't as strong as it used to be (and it's flow was severely overestimated) and water rights are based on a "first come, first serve" (more or less) tied to land holdings goeing back to the early part of the 20th Century. Back then the population of the state and technologies were very different and you have these families/businesses that are running off of old percentages that are not efficient and lots of water is lost to evaporation and leakage. There is only so much water from the Colorado River that Arizonians can take (we share it with Nevada and Southern California) and there is only so much ground water available past that. So maybe new technologies and hydroponics might help but it will not produce more water. This is the same for every semi arid and desert region around the world, water availability and potable water might limit what local production can yield. I suspect Australia would run into this issue especially in the interior of the country where land is plentiful and water not so much. 🤔 As for solar panels, they CAN work (especially here in the Southwest part of the United States) but in colder locations like Scandinavia where it gets REALLY cold and you have grey winters, solar doesn't work nearly as well. Maybe solar mixed with wind or geothermal but then you are investing in more than one technology and that cost is front loaded. So Green Energy is a mixed bag depending on where you live.
@@filippetrula1234 Yeah but then you have climate (most of Russia is permafrost and you can't farm permafrost) and you have land quality. Just because a forest is there doesn't mean it will be good for farming. Russia has also REALLY screwed up an entire region by reversing the flow of a river and basically draining the Caspian Sea in order to grow cotton. You can't eat cotton and the fallout of this is it killed a region. Quality wise the best farm land on the European Plain is outside of Russia in countries like Poland, Germany, and Ukraine. Russia also lacks roads and infrastructure to be able to make other areas more arable to grow produce. If they could have done they would have done it decades or centuries ago at this point. Canada has a lot of land but the percentage of that that is arable for crops is pretty small and basically hugs the top of the United States. Like Russia they have a lot of woods and permafrost but again, you can't convert that into farm fields and pastures. In both countries you would have a very small window for growing and Canada has a better road and rail system than Russia but again, that doesn't run everywhere. It's also worth noting that once you turn a patch of land into a farm or arable land you ruin the local ecosystem for plants and animals. The most fertile land is much closer to the Equator than the Polar regions. If you could just farm food anywhere then the world would look very different than it currently does.
In terms of Netherlands, most of the exports are re-exports. In terms of agriculture production, I believe the list might look like the following, China, India, US, Russia, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia, Argentina, and Australia. Something similar.
The EU has been trying hard to destroy the agricultural industry of the Netherlands. God bless the farmers and others that have resisted this insanity.
The Netherlands produces alot of very high value agricultural products. Like cheese or butter and milk. Lots of dairy. But they have a much higher value per acre or hectare.
Food equals energy. The Netherlands just imports huge amounts of recources in the form of animal feed, fossil fuel and fertiliser. That is then efficiently converted into meat and produce. NL couldn't do this without US gmo corn to feed the cows, rainforest soy etc etc
What is the point of this? I mean germans wouldn’t have access to cheap bell peppers and zucchini’s without the netherlands. Also Much of the computer chips need ASML machines.It’s all connected like a global market should
They have hands down the best dairy products and eggs in the world...(cant be sure on the eggs tho) once you eat their cheese you feel like you never had cheese until that moment its unreal...
World hunger isn't a problem of supply, it's a problem of distribution. Edit: Since many still don't understand: there's enough resources on the planet for everyone but we don't give them out to everyone. There are many reasons behind this, corruption is just one of those reasons.
It’s actually both that are the problem. Communities facing hunger and starvation often can’t grow their own food because of bad climate conditions, pollution, limited water resources, or bad soil. These communities tend to be in poor, remote, or hard to reach areas that have limited to no exports Communities have to generate a certain amount of food themselves in order to be sustainable, importing food is something you can only do when the revenue generated from exports is greater than the import costs. If a community has no goods and lacks the education necessary to export high end services, then their only option is export cheap labour, usually doing dangerous, toxic, and hazardous work. Which also ends up being part of the root cause because that type of labour pollutes the environment making it impossible to grow food Currently the world produces enough food that you could feed everyone, however farmers aren’t going to give their food away for free and even if they did it’s not a real solution. GMO strains are one possible solution for communities who can’t grow food due to climate problems, however communities suffering from pollution and lack of clean water sources need to get rid of all the pollution which can take decades, and solving the water crisis is a whole problem in itself If distribution was the only issue then all you’d need to do is build more distribution routes
@@TheJjcczzyou cant say it isn’t a distribution problem and say that the problem is some ppl can’t afford to buy the surplus of food, that is a distribution problem, if we wanted to feed everyone we could but we don’t because it isn’t profitable
Nah, it's a problem of supply....and corruption. The places that have more starvation usually can't produce food for even basic needs because they are corrupt and inefficient. Take Africa, for example, with many countries that could be producing more than enough for their consumption and exporting to neighbors. Many places with good land that only require digging and setting up water supply, labor, machines, know-how and roads for the supply chain. But that only works if people can have safety in their lands to keep producing and getting paid for their work. Some places, like Zimbabwe, even had plenty of farms producing plenty of food, but because they put in power some populist dictator that was moved by ignorance, like hate on the white people and such, they killed, raped and expelled white farmers, while they couldn't run the farms themselves, which lead to one of the biggest producers in Africa to starvation and hyperinflation. So the issue is people in their own countries being too stupid to create just enough conditions and safety to farm even for basic nutrition. Certainly, the corruption, lack of knowledge and stupidity generates bad conditions for themselves, meaning the hardworking people with proper understanding either gives up and moves to another country or can't work and do what they could or even die trying to do the right thing in those countries.
This not surprised. We have a rich loam valley north of Toronto Canada called Holland Marsh. Once a large marshland swamp it was drained by Dutch settlers in the last century, & is the richest farmland per square foot in Canada. It has a complex irrigation system & it's own irrigation canal. The soil is as black as coal.
Despite what some comments here hav written, It is really commendable what th Dutch hav done. These people don't take into account that Netherlands is not even a medium sized country like France leave alone a large sized country. It is a quite small country, smaller than most states of th US. So since farmland & agricultural products are directly linked, it is really great that th Dutch can export so much. Also don't forget that Holland was once th most densely populated country in th world, till India & Bangladesh overtook it.
Most things grown in greenhouses are tasteless, but the vegetables that come out of the ground are very tasty as long as they are fresh. Unfortunately those nice vegetables are also kept for months in storage to be able to sell them in the offseason. That destroys the taste.
Not true mate. Somehow we end up with vegetables from other countries and even Egypt while we produce more then enough food our selves. I mostly buy my vegetables from local farmers and its good.
Thing is, taste in vegetables is often the result of exposure to sunlight, and here there's just about enough of that to grow in the first place. Especially if the crop has been grown in winter, most of the light it got is artificial. There's a reason people migrate en masse to the Mediterranean for the summer holidays. Gotta soak up that sun. If we gotta go technical on this one, I suspect it's the lack of exposure to UV that makes them tasteless. They are grown in greenhouses after all, and the glass block UV quite effectively.
In terms of calories dutch trade balance might even be negative as they need to import lots of animal feed like soy but they understand to transform that into much more valuable goods
Actually, that’s the reason your groceries are expensive. Because other countries cannot sustain themselves and demand your groceries, prices are high . If there was a surplus of supply prices would decrease
Yes. All countries in th world are a fraction of India. Don't even count China out like 1 person said here because China is about 3 times th size of India in land area & yet India crossed China in population in 2022 surprising. Lol
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Well netherlands is a port hub and has been since colonial times, so they re-export a lot of the imports, something similar happens with other port hubs countries.
China, despite it's size only has a third of its land that's considered arable ie for farming, and even that has to be shared by rapid urbanisation as obviously majority of the large cities and population reside there.
It is because so much farmland there was created by draining marshes that you had a country of perfectly irrigated, flat, sediment and therefore nutrient rich soil. So the cows eat grass and produce insane amounts of dairy products and they can plant anything. The engineering ideas also means they are very good at agri-innovations so they can also export difficult goods like flowers. Then they have massive ports and their biggest direct trading reflects their maritime history, because it is not Germany etc but ths UK, which is just across the water, and from which it accesses huge global markets if not from its own ports.
I don’t think the cattle are getting their feed from the Netherlands, in fact one of the main drivers for the corporate agribusiness in Latin America is providing feed that is shipped to Europe, fed to cows and turned into meat and cheese there, I don’t think there’s nearly enough arable land in NL to produce enough feed for the volume of dairy and meat produced
@@markfryer9880 exactly and the fact that all income of google, meta, apple and other big names transits through Ireland since their european headoffices are in Dublin so on paper it looks like they have HUGE dollars but from Irish offices that money leave to other tax havens. Ireland fought against the European Union to keep her corporate taxes lpw.
Except it isn't. It just means they use the food they grow to feed themselves rather than other countries. And other countries aren't as efficient as Netherlands. Also Netherlands mostly exports Dairy, eggs, meat and also flowers which are expensive and lots of goods to Europe come by Rotterdam and gets counted as a Dutch export
@@JackieClayton-zz2rb I really didn't mean the netherlands. I don't know how much influence the netherlands has globally. It actually didn't cross my brain in terms of agricultural export before this video mentioned it.
“America is the largest agriculture exporter in the world” For how many years more do you have of that title? You guys devastate more land than you make us off.
I mean it's about exports yeah. But if you only grow food for your countries population it isn't as efficient than feeding your own population as well as exporting alot to other countries
@@monkemode8128 Yes, that's another potential explanation. I don't think it's the case with the netherlands though. Their exports of food are about double their imports.
In fairness it's not like the country has always been amenable to agriculture, half their land was marshland or sea until they started draining it in the 1600s.
@@MoonThuli true. US left land wild….left wetlands wild. The land suz comparison is bogus. You are not growing tulips n the side of the Rocky Mountains. Not growing veggies much in the Mohave desert due to water restrictions. Not growing year round in Alaska
And this is why, when videos come out talking about food shortages in America, and why we need to buy every scrap of food we can fit into our house because of shipping issues, culling of chickens, warehouses burning down, farms being put out of business, etc., I say that there is no way we as a nation will ever go hungry. We may not have 15 varieties of potato chips to select from, but we won't ever starve. We still throw away about 1/3 of our edible food from farm to landfill. We have a long way to go before real food shortages would appear. During WW11 people planted Victory Gardens. They levied rations on people for certain foods. Not all commercial food was rationed, only certain items. Private growers/producers were not under any rationing program.
For those who thought Russia or Ukraine, they mainly export cereals and fruits. With Russia actually dominating the fertilizer market not only the cereal one.
The Dutchies are crazy smart dudes . I love their culture, even if to southern European they can seem brutal with their attitude, they aren’t really. They just go straight to the point . Go orange 🇳🇱
Wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans are the main agricultural exports that matter. Any major disruptions with these is enough to trigger a major crisis anywhere.
This is by value not quantity!! So it dosent produce more than it needs! Only if it has raw material supply. This is even more true for the Netherlands.
I guess this is mainly price comparison. I wonder if it also the same if we measured the mass of the products instead. Reason being, price can fluctuate very much between a kg of potatos and a liter of milk. Or other more expensive agricultural products
That would explain the affluence of the Dutch state. They put their money back into infrastructure where here in the US it just helps the rich get richer
In case anyone was wondering, dairy and egg exports were in first place, followed by horticultural exports in second place and meat exports in third place for the Netherlands.
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Where does flowers come in?
@@damonmaddox1313 Horticultural includes flowers! I'm shocked it wasn't first🌷
@@damonmaddox1313also from the netherlands we are masters at export anything u want we got it
Imagine the people of the United States getting a fair price on these things before the cooperations ship it across the ocean for maximum profits…
These exports include products produced in the Netherlands as well as imported products that are re-exported, often after further processing and adding value.
Exactly misleading information, no matter how efficient the Dutch are at producing food they are not THAT efficient that they can outproduce China or Brazil
@xxAnaconta Not misleading. You answered your own confusion. They’re not second largest producers but second largest exporters. It still gets counted in their export books. And talking about efficiency, Netherlands is hyper efficient in their agricultural. A HUGE portion of agriculture happens under green houses in Netherlands. They’re are the leaders in biotechnology research and the seeds they produce are more valuable then gold. If you cared enough to watch full video you’ll understand
@@thecompanioncube4211 For people not familiar with the difference between production and exports, the video suggests that the Netherland is the second biggest producer of agricultural products in the world.
@@xxAnaconta2/3 of our export is still grown here
@@drpepper3838 source?
Netherlands grows tons of tulips but also imports lots of fresh flowers from around the worls for re-export to western europe. They are also global leaders in greenhouse and hydroponic technology.
One of the things I found about the Netherlands while vacationing in Curacao is that they not only continue to support their former colonies financially but maintain "monopiles" on agricultural (food)imports. I learned that from a young man who supplies all of the "ABC "Islands with imported food goods, but they also supply the "Dutch East Indies" and other former colonies, by treaty. Most former "colonial powers", are still extracting resources on the cheap. From their "protectorates". Even if the post WW2, emancipations, gave them "autonomy".
@@machetedonttweet1343we “The Dutch” support the Dutch Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Saba and sint Maarten per year 32 million per island to counter poverty and help create jobs. Curaçao’s and Aruba have a status aparte as we call it, they wanted to be part off the kingdom but no help they are on their own with their own government.
1. Netherlands main export market is Europe, which explain why the value is so high (euro is high).
2. Netherlands is one of the largest shipping route in Europe, standing in the middle of the three largest European economies (U.K/France/Germany) Meaning Netherlands does not just exporting their products, but also other countries products too. Most of the times, it is from a European country to another, like U.K/France products go through Netherlands then go to Germany or vice versa.
Netherlands is 2nd food exported by value, 3rd by quantity.
Still amazing tho, for its eize
@@sphericalcat1434 yes, and most of it goes to Germany.
They have amazing horticulture and agriculture practices especially for sustainability, they and a few country’s are decades ahead of everyone else in certain areas. American is #1 for restoring natural prairies and ecosystem but Europe is just holding on 😂
First by quality.
Yes, that's why the value was put in the video. Muppet
In the same way, Singapore is one of tbe greatest 'export' ports in the world. It's a numbers game that includes products that enter the Nethetlands and leave, sometimes with processing, but usually not.
True, but after reading the dutch people comments, it is kinda disappointing how they blindly defend this statement. how can't they differentiate exporter not producer, it is unlikely a population of 17.7 million can output more agriculture product than China or india
The Netherlands also produces high dollar value exports non-food exports like cut flowers.
Didn’t they go crazy over a flower for awhile ?? The tulip lol
I think cheese as well
Think about Edamer and Gouda - extremely popular cheesus
Warning, this is about exporting. India and china can not be that high on this list as they have 4x more people and need much more food. China has much much more agriculture than the US while also being top 1 in the most different plants including Rice, the most used plant we humans eat but also Spinach, eggplant and now also Potatoes and carrots. Same goes to India who often is on second place where China is on first but sometimes is before them like in dry beans or Onions.
Correct, also othee countries like Indonesia, Vietnam etc control exports to avoid inflation of staples lke rice, chillies, etc
Good point. I get that it’s a short, but videos like this are generally misleading. I was waiting for a quick explanation that wasn’t said because I’m not interested enough to watch the full video as they’re hoping to hook us into.
@@LuckyCharms777He always makes videos like these
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Darn it. I just looked at his channel page. He has some interesting titles, but are his videos any good?
Although population is a factor, that is not the expressed point the video is getting at. The food to population ratio is just a face value relation being portrayed. The actual explication being referenced is the technology and innovation that America has invested into agricultural sciences since its founding.
They’ve been pouring billions of dollars into their food production techniques and refinement of processes and distribution since the Industrial Revolution and haven’t stopped since. So much so that stealing and smuggling seeds could possibly lead you into the realm of crimes of espionage and treason.
Our country is basically a hill-less farm with a couple of cities and the biggest harbor on the continent, so it does make sense somewhat 😅
nah you underestimate how many industrial zones we have for how small we are. Dont forget warehouses.
First thing that comes to my mind when I (German) think of the Netherlands is cheese (🤤). Second thing is tasteless tomatoes. 😅
It seems alot of food is going that way 😢 tasteless
@@moskbarto9436Our cheese is good, the tomatos we import suck. I had tomatos in Italy and they are very delicious.
@@Kalumubotia your cheese is exceptional! I really do love it. Every now and then I order a few kg online. 😅
Vegetables (and fruits) in general aren't very taste here. But tomatoes from NL are known for being quite tasteless in Germany. You can't compare them tomatoes in Italy, Spain, Morocco or any other sunny country. It's like eating a whole different kind of vegetable.
WWII is the reason why Netherlands produces so much food.
Germans almost starved the Dutch people to death in the 1940’s.
Dutch government swore that will never happen again.
Shout out to the Dutch for being resolute and productive ❤
We know that 😢 really sad 😔
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EU is trying to do it again...Dutch farmers have been protesting regulations for years. Regulations on fertilizers and animal taxes, which are absurd.
USA and China has about the same amount of agricultural land but the food grown in China will be priotised to the 1.4 billion Chinese while USA has a population of around 400 million or less.
No, cos os a little bit smaller
The last time chinese prioritize exports, several million chinese died. So kinda understand lol.
China produces more food that the US
China really doesn't have the arrable land one might assume just looking at its size. This is misleading.
@@platonique the Yellow River and Yangtze River are one of the most fertile places, what are you talking about?
The Dutch also grows huge amounts of foods using hydroponics. Where growing things like lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. May produce 1 or 2 crops in soil, hydroponics can easily produce 2 to 3 times that much.
It’s the Rotterdam affect, the port is and eu hub and countries from all of Europe export from Rotterdam but on paper they show up as Dutch export
haha
not really no.
That makes sense, assuming you’re telling the truth
@@_-4232 he isnt. there is a reason the whole world comes here to study agraculture.
@@Markuden did you google seatch rotterdam effect?
The US actually pays some farmers to grow nothing.
Lmao
So does the EU. It also complains about high nitrogen in the Netherlands.
@@myparceltape1169 Ironic, I was unaware nitrogen was a hazard,.......its inert and makes up 77% of the atmosphere. Ill have to check that out.
@@Weave.seen.this.b4 Fertiliser able to leach into the multiple waterways.
@@myparceltape1169 Ehhh, sure, could pull a Tim McViegh too.
United States?
The state of Illinois makes enough beans a month to feed the entire planet for 30 years
@@aydinsurdyke
Yeah... That's a HUGE exaggeration, but the US does produce a huge surplus of staples, most of which goes to 1- Animal feed, 2- exports, 3- ethanol production, and, 4- actual people food.
One of the US's primary strategic strengths is it's ability to produce far more calories than it's people could consume (even though there are so many obese Americans- how embarrassing!)...
Ukraine has the same strategic advantage (it basically feeds North Africa, which is strange, since, until relatively recently, Egypt was the breadbasket of the Mediterranean world). That strategic value, along with its newly discovered hydrocarbon reserves, are some of the primary reasons that Russia is trying to conquer it!
(Ok, I went O/T there, but it's true!)
@@bholdr----0 obese Americans is crazy💀💀
It makes sense. The Netherlands have always had fertile Goodland that is not flooded or damaged yearly.
Did everybody catch the lie? The clip starts it taking about the US's **FOOD** production, then switches to "agricultural products" to compare the US to all other countries.
You can look it up yourself, like I did, and you'll find that **Germany** is the second largest **FOOD** exporter.
(I'm from a Dutch background. I **know** that The Netherlands biggest export is **tulips.**)
I was wondering if The Netherlands tulip production was what put them to #2 in Agricultural production. Thank you for confirming.
That’s cool but it’s in financial terms. If we consider food tonnage production, there can’t be any European country in the top 3.
That's crazy, I didn't even know that.
Just because a country is big does not mean it has arable land. Russia, Australia, and Canada are great examples of lots of land but only so much can be farmed. Soil quality as well as capital for fertilizer and equipment also play a role here.😉👍✨
Green house farming using solar panels as roofs as well as composte for dirt can be used for those massive countries especially australia since it doesn't have ultra ling winters in which solar is less effective
@@rezaganjizadeh4263
I agree, you can use newer methods to farm produce. That said it still isn't the same as arable land and traditional farming. The good news with newer techniques like what you described and hydroponics is that it can be scaled up to match the local requirements... to a point.
I live in Arizona and what most people will find odd is that there is a lot of farming here in the Sonoran desert. The biggest problem is water and water rights because the way it has been done is not quite in step with our times and current problems.
The Colorado River isn't as strong as it used to be (and it's flow was severely overestimated) and water rights are based on a "first come, first serve" (more or less) tied to land holdings goeing back to the early part of the 20th Century. Back then the population of the state and technologies were very different and you have these families/businesses that are running off of old percentages that are not efficient and lots of water is lost to evaporation and leakage.
There is only so much water from the Colorado River that Arizonians can take (we share it with Nevada and Southern California) and there is only so much ground water available past that. So maybe new technologies and hydroponics might help but it will not produce more water. This is the same for every semi arid and desert region around the world, water availability and potable water might limit what local production can yield.
I suspect Australia would run into this issue especially in the interior of the country where land is plentiful and water not so much. 🤔
As for solar panels, they CAN work (especially here in the Southwest part of the United States) but in colder locations like Scandinavia where it gets REALLY cold and you have grey winters, solar doesn't work nearly as well. Maybe solar mixed with wind or geothermal but then you are investing in more than one technology and that cost is front loaded. So Green Energy is a mixed bag depending on where you live.
@@rezaganjizadeh4263 I guess it’s expensive and inconvenient to implement but that could totally work.
Russia could easily farm their land if they want to, but they are a huge wood exporter and also fertilizer exporter
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Yeah but then you have climate (most of Russia is permafrost and you can't farm permafrost) and you have land quality. Just because a forest is there doesn't mean it will be good for farming. Russia has also REALLY screwed up an entire region by reversing the flow of a river and basically draining the Caspian Sea in order to grow cotton. You can't eat cotton and the fallout of this is it killed a region.
Quality wise the best farm land on the European Plain is outside of Russia in countries like Poland, Germany, and Ukraine. Russia also lacks roads and infrastructure to be able to make other areas more arable to grow produce. If they could have done they would have done it decades or centuries ago at this point.
Canada has a lot of land but the percentage of that that is arable for crops is pretty small and basically hugs the top of the United States. Like Russia they have a lot of woods and permafrost but again, you can't convert that into farm fields and pastures. In both countries you would have a very small window for growing and Canada has a better road and rail system than Russia but again, that doesn't run everywhere.
It's also worth noting that once you turn a patch of land into a farm or arable land you ruin the local ecosystem for plants and animals. The most fertile land is much closer to the Equator than the Polar regions. If you could just farm food anywhere then the world would look very different than it currently does.
In terms of Netherlands, most of the exports are re-exports. In terms of agriculture production, I believe the list might look like the following, China, India, US, Russia, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, Indonesia, Argentina, and Australia. Something similar.
The us far out produces China and other countries by volume and value. The Netherlands on the other hand… they are just manipulating numbers.
Most exports are not re-exports. About 1/3rd is re-export I believe. Other countries also re-export though so I don't really get your point.
He's mad his country isn't at the top@@itsmederek1
Yup. And the EU was trying to disrupt the Netherlands Farming community. They failed.
Timmermans. Groen links, d66, pvdd, pvda. There is the problem. Cda, cu and sgp as well. Hot meals in the church gets the voters back.
NWO, WEF.
Not if the WEF has its way and closes down the farms in the Netherlands. Stand with Dutch farmers!
Huh. Would never have guessed the Netherlands.
Netherland people have no talent
Netherland is rich just because u colonized massive land Indonesia from 100+ years
Nederlands sell tulips which have a lot of value per acre, compared to cereal crops say
The EU has been trying hard to destroy the agricultural industry of the Netherlands. God bless the farmers and others that have resisted this insanity.
Such nonsense 2/3 of the EU budget goes to subsidizing farmers.
The Netherlands produces alot of very high value agricultural products. Like cheese or butter and milk. Lots of dairy. But they have a much higher value per acre or hectare.
Guns and food .. God bless America
A yes, France, that HUGE country with similar sizes of cultivable land as Brazil or China...
I'd be interested to know if this is simply by dollar amount (which I suspect) or if it is in calorie value.
Dolar
Its in a big amount high value crops
Lol, it's obviously flowers.
@@Avy42Fand cheese
@@Avy42F This is what I was thinking.
@@Avy42Fthose only make up 10% of it actually
Food equals energy. The Netherlands just imports huge amounts of recources in the form of animal feed, fossil fuel and fertiliser.
That is then efficiently converted into meat and produce.
NL couldn't do this without US gmo corn to feed the cows, rainforest soy etc etc
What is the point of this? I mean germans wouldn’t have access to cheap bell peppers and zucchini’s without the netherlands. Also Much of the computer chips need ASML machines.It’s all connected like a global market should
Bro's on his Dutch appreciation arc and I'm all here for it
They have hands down the best dairy products and eggs in the world...(cant be sure on the eggs tho)
once you eat their cheese you feel like you never had cheese until that moment its unreal...
I was watching this not really paying attention, and i said to myself “wouldnt it be funny if it was the netherlands”
Btw… in Europe crossing from one country to another is considered an “export”.
So now break down agricultural production in each state and let’s see
World hunger isn't a problem of supply, it's a problem of distribution.
Edit: Since many still don't understand: there's enough resources on the planet for everyone but we don't give them out to everyone. There are many reasons behind this, corruption is just one of those reasons.
It’s only a problem because population who cannot sustain themselves are breeding too fast
It’s actually both that are the problem. Communities facing hunger and starvation often can’t grow their own food because of bad climate conditions, pollution, limited water resources, or bad soil. These communities tend to be in poor, remote, or hard to reach areas that have limited to no exports
Communities have to generate a certain amount of food themselves in order to be sustainable, importing food is something you can only do when the revenue generated from exports is greater than the import costs. If a community has no goods and lacks the education necessary to export high end services, then their only option is export cheap labour, usually doing dangerous, toxic, and hazardous work. Which also ends up being part of the root cause because that type of labour pollutes the environment making it impossible to grow food
Currently the world produces enough food that you could feed everyone, however farmers aren’t going to give their food away for free and even if they did it’s not a real solution. GMO strains are one possible solution for communities who can’t grow food due to climate problems, however communities suffering from pollution and lack of clean water sources need to get rid of all the pollution which can take decades, and solving the water crisis is a whole problem in itself
If distribution was the only issue then all you’d need to do is build more distribution routes
@@TheJjcczzyou cant say it isn’t a distribution problem and say that the problem is some ppl can’t afford to buy the surplus of food, that is a distribution problem, if we wanted to feed everyone we could but we don’t because it isn’t profitable
Nah, it's a problem of supply....and corruption.
The places that have more starvation usually can't produce food for even basic needs because they are corrupt and inefficient.
Take Africa, for example, with many countries that could be producing more than enough for their consumption and exporting to neighbors. Many places with good land that only require digging and setting up water supply, labor, machines, know-how and roads for the supply chain. But that only works if people can have safety in their lands to keep producing and getting paid for their work.
Some places, like Zimbabwe, even had plenty of farms producing plenty of food, but because they put in power some populist dictator that was moved by ignorance, like hate on the white people and such, they killed, raped and expelled white farmers, while they couldn't run the farms themselves, which lead to one of the biggest producers in Africa to starvation and hyperinflation.
So the issue is people in their own countries being too stupid to create just enough conditions and safety to farm even for basic nutrition. Certainly, the corruption, lack of knowledge and stupidity generates bad conditions for themselves, meaning the hardworking people with proper understanding either gives up and moves to another country or can't work and do what they could or even die trying to do the right thing in those countries.
@@antoniocampos5638 Just google yearly food waste, a minute of research before you start yappin.
This not surprised. We have a rich loam valley north of Toronto Canada called Holland Marsh. Once a large marshland swamp it was drained by Dutch settlers in the last century, & is the richest farmland per square foot in Canada. It has a complex irrigation system & it's own irrigation canal. The soil is as black as coal.
yes... that is a well known fact within the farming industry... and they've done it all since the devastation of ww2...
Despite what some comments here hav written, It is really commendable what th Dutch hav done. These people don't take into account that Netherlands is not even a medium sized country like France leave alone a large sized country. It is a quite small country, smaller than most states of th US. So since farmland & agricultural products are directly linked, it is really great that th Dutch can export so much. Also don't forget that Holland was once th most densely populated country in th world, till India & Bangladesh overtook it.
cause they don't produced it they re-export it. same case as singapore.
It’s a well known fact in Europe, that these vegetables grown in the Netherlands are almost tasteless.
Well yeah. If my cucumber tastes spicy, I'd be pissed
Most things grown in greenhouses are tasteless, but the vegetables that come out of the ground are very tasty as long as they are fresh.
Unfortunately those nice vegetables are also kept for months in storage to be able to sell them in the offseason. That destroys the taste.
Not true mate. Somehow we end up with vegetables from other countries and even Egypt while we produce more then enough food our selves. I mostly buy my vegetables from local farmers and its good.
That's a fact. Finding tomatoes that taste like tomatoes is a challenge.
Thing is, taste in vegetables is often the result of exposure to sunlight, and here there's just about enough of that to grow in the first place. Especially if the crop has been grown in winter, most of the light it got is artificial. There's a reason people migrate en masse to the Mediterranean for the summer holidays. Gotta soak up that sun.
If we gotta go technical on this one, I suspect it's the lack of exposure to UV that makes them tasteless. They are grown in greenhouses after all, and the glass block UV quite effectively.
It's the aggregator and market place of horticultural goods so it's not about production but trade in Netherlands
The problem with statistics. What’s the base for the comparison? I guess money. Use calories and it might look completely different.
Why should they use calories ? Sugar has much more calories than chicken and is much cheaper for example
@@filippetrula1234 you just got the prize for not understanding a post…
In terms of calories dutch trade balance might even be negative as they need to import lots of animal feed like soy but they understand to transform that into much more valuable goods
At first, thought tulips accounted for a majority of agriculture, but fascinating how they achieved this feat of food growing
Crazy how we export all this yet our groceries are still expensive asf 😂
That's what happens when your country doesn't spend the taxes on the population
corporations like to raise prices and blame it on inflation.
Also, still find a way to give food aid to other countries. 🤷♂️
Actually, that’s the reason your groceries are expensive.
Because other countries cannot sustain themselves and demand your groceries, prices are high .
If there was a surplus of supply prices would decrease
@Econexpressclips well it's a good thing our government is trying to drastically downsize our agriculture! Oh wait
Oh, I thought it was Canada for a second 😅 🇨🇦
In the last 4 years due to policies we are importing more food than were exporting for the FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
The Dutch strike again! In the U.S.A. as well as the Netherlands.
isn't every population a fraction of indias
Except china
@@kriketprayme .... also China....
😂😂
In addition we don't eat any processed or genetically modified foods. We still have it natural!
Yes. All countries in th world are a fraction of India. Don't even count China out like 1 person said here because China is about 3 times th size of India in land area & yet India crossed China in population in 2022 surprising. Lol
Well netherlands is a port hub and has been since colonial times, so they re-export a lot of the imports, something similar happens with other port hubs countries.
China, despite it's size only has a third of its land that's considered arable ie for farming, and even that has to be shared by rapid urbanisation as obviously majority of the large cities and population reside there.
It is because so much farmland there was created by draining marshes that you had a country of perfectly irrigated, flat, sediment and therefore nutrient rich soil. So the cows eat grass and produce insane amounts of dairy products and they can plant anything. The engineering ideas also means they are very good at agri-innovations so they can also export difficult goods like flowers. Then they have massive ports and their biggest direct trading reflects their maritime history, because it is not Germany etc but ths UK, which is just across the water, and from which it accesses huge global markets if not from its own ports.
I don’t think the cattle are getting their feed from the Netherlands, in fact one of the main drivers for the corporate agribusiness in Latin America is providing feed that is shipped to Europe, fed to cows and turned into meat and cheese there, I don’t think there’s nearly enough arable land in NL to produce enough feed for the volume of dairy and meat produced
Yeah in the same way as an average Irish citizen per capita income is higher than Switzerland.
Is that due to the tax haven status?
@@markfryer9880 exactly and the fact that all income of google, meta, apple and other big names transits through Ireland since their european headoffices are in Dublin so on paper it looks like they have HUGE dollars but from Irish offices that money leave to other tax havens. Ireland fought against the European Union to keep her corporate taxes lpw.
All America eats is fast food and meat. They're going to have an excess left anyways! Countries have their own priorities.
indian?
Lol we have tons of uppity vegans too.
Won’t be for long with their current leadership
That just means some other countries capabilities are being suppressed but by whom? 🤔
Except it isn't. It just means they use the food they grow to feed themselves rather than other countries. And other countries aren't as efficient as Netherlands. Also Netherlands mostly exports Dairy, eggs, meat and also flowers which are expensive and lots of goods to Europe come by Rotterdam and gets counted as a Dutch export
You're counting production, not import to transformation and export like the Netherlands.
@@JackieClayton-zz2rb I really didn't mean the netherlands. I don't know how much influence the netherlands has globally. It actually didn't cross my brain in terms of agricultural export before this video mentioned it.
He's obsessed with netherlands
“America is the largest agriculture exporter in the world”
For how many years more do you have of that title? You guys devastate more land than you make us off.
Probably for a long time? US has so many fertile land that it’s a cheat code.
Also “devastated” land repair itself after a while.
I mean, even during the US civil war, the union was the largest exporter of food to France and Britain as a refrence so a good 150 years maybe
Dutch exports are high end processed agri and food products like tulips cheese etc
Plot twist, Americans also eat way more than they need so it about evens out
sure, the obese ones. yet corporations waste and throw away more “product” than they can sell. it’s not eaten.
I mean it's about exports yeah. But if you only grow food for your countries population it isn't as efficient than feeding your own population as well as exporting alot to other countries
I lived in Nederlands and it is a wonderful place to live.
Export doesn't mean they produce it right? Right?
No, exporting does mean they produce it, at least most of the time. Importing is buying, and exporting is selling
@@lumibumizumiimport, refine, export. Import, export to other euro countries
@@monkemode8128 Yes, that's another potential explanation. I don't think it's the case with the netherlands though. Their exports of food are about double their imports.
Yes!!! Bless them! ❤🎉😊 But I understand that their government is choking out farmers? Please do your research on this topic. Maybe it has changed??
Hoe many mountains they have?
Deserts?
Forests?
National state and local parks on land
Military bases
In fairness it's not like the country has always been amenable to agriculture, half their land was marshland or sea until they started draining it in the 1600s.
@@MoonThuli "God may have made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands"
@@MoonThuli true. US left land wild….left wetlands wild. The land suz comparison is bogus. You are not growing tulips n the side of the Rocky Mountains. Not growing veggies much in the Mohave desert due to water restrictions. Not growing year round in Alaska
How many reservations for native Netherlanders do they have?
The country is smaller than the state of New York.
By what measure? Per pound? Per unit produced? Per linear foot?
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It's not the volume, but Netherland export more expensive
Can u please show what all types of agricultural products does it export the Netherland .
I had no idea The Dutchlands had so much food production 😃
When I was in Arabia we were getting most everything dairy from Netherlands. Yep and they did real good on it
And this is why, when videos come out talking about food shortages in America, and why we need to buy every scrap of food we can fit into our house because of shipping issues, culling of chickens, warehouses burning down, farms being put out of business, etc., I say that there is no way we as a nation will ever go hungry. We may not have 15 varieties of potato chips to select from, but we won't ever starve. We still throw away about 1/3 of our edible food from farm to landfill. We have a long way to go before real food shortages would appear. During WW11 people planted Victory Gardens. They levied rations on people for certain foods. Not all commercial food was rationed, only certain items. Private growers/producers were not under any rationing program.
For those who thought Russia or Ukraine, they mainly export cereals and fruits. With Russia actually dominating the fertilizer market not only the cereal one.
That's a lot of flowers and butter
The Dutchies are crazy smart dudes . I love their culture, even if to southern European they can seem brutal with their attitude, they aren’t really. They just go straight to the point . Go orange 🇳🇱
Wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans are the main agricultural exports that matter. Any major disruptions with these is enough to trigger a major crisis anywhere.
This is by value not quantity!! So it dosent produce more than it needs! Only if it has raw material supply. This is even more true for the Netherlands.
Credits go to the Dutch for an astonishing accomplishments despite having meagre farmland.
Type in any food product and check about production than export. Your eyes will pop out
Wow. I guess everyone would do well to study the farming methods of the Netherlands.
That is WILD.
Food is a subset of agriculture
It's good to have so much of land which is empty
Had absolutely no idea 😮😮❤❤❤
With pure curiosity ; Where’s Denmark on that list ? 🤔😊
How is this measured? By $ or by weight?
How do they do this? Do they farm this? Or it is a port that trades and exports other countries’ goods?
If you're curious about one of the most interesting engineering projects ever, check out these things called Polders that they built.
The World LOVES us some tulips!
As a German, I am not surprised.
And Denmark is also right up there .
By weight or by value? Can we have a unit of measurement please?
I love my Dutch heritage
But if I'm not mistaken is the Netherlands have been fighting with their farmers and making them stop producing food?
I guess this is mainly price comparison.
I wonder if it also the same if we measured the mass of the products instead.
Reason being, price can fluctuate very much between a kg of potatos and a liter of milk. Or other more expensive agricultural products
Yea, tulips don't take up much space.
Saudi and the Arab emirs own most of the agriculture in Amoco
Oh it’s Netherlands! They have a ton of greenhouses.
Most efficient for a reason
This makes the Dutch government reducing farmland even crazier. Like how many countries are relying on them?
Wow, I really thought it would be Brazil. Knew it probably wouldn't be India or China, as they have massive populations to feed.
Our farmland is basically the best in the world it has a really thick layer of farmland
That would explain the affluence of the Dutch state. They put their money back into infrastructure where here in the US it just helps the rich get richer
Come on Canada we need to step our game up