According to WorldBank[1], they import $36 billion and export $26 billion worth of food
[1] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea...
Such journalism...
[1] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea...
Such journalism...
Things like vertical food farms, huge greenhouses, intensive farming help us become (one of) the biggest
- milk and milk powder producer - apples (apples in South Africa are likely to come from the Netherlands) - tomato’s in Spain come from the Netherlands
Etc etc.
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/apples-and-pe...
- Agricultural machines
- Seeds
- Agricultural patents on e.g. seeds
- Fertilizers
- non-food plants (flowers etc.)
- (Animal) vaccins
- other agricultural products processed ("produced") in the Netherlands
And if you count those by value, then it is certainly possible that NL gets a large share of world exports by value: other countries like Germany may produce more, but if they don't export the valuable products it won't show up on world export stats.