In 2018 , € 90.3 billion of agrarian goods were exported from the Netherlands . This is a thin gain of 0.2 % compare to 2017 , when it was € 90.1 billion . However , the maturation contrast sharply with the growth in 2016 and 2017 of 4 % and 6 % , severally . importee growth is also stagnating , with only 0.5 % ontogeny for 2018 . This is show in inquiry by Wageningen Economic Research ( WUR ) and Statistics Netherlands ( CBS ) , which was commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture , Nature and Food Quality ( LNV ) .
Despite the retardation in ontogenesis , the Netherlands remain the secondly largest farming exporter in the world after the United States . 65.4 billion was produced by Dutch growers .
Export growth is stagnating
ImportIt is forecast that 61.4 billion was imported in 2018 , an increase of 0.5 % in 2017 . Here , too , the growth is considerably lower , because in 2017 an 8 % growth was recorded compare to 2016 . The craft surplusage of 28.8 billion euro is due to the in high spirits growth in importation compare to export , and is a decrease of 0.4 % compare to 2017 .
Import growth
exportation veg stable , import shrinksTomatoes , capsicum and cucumbers are the independent exported veg . The value of nursery and field veg amounted to 6.6 billion euros , comparable to 2017 . The exportation of Lycopersicon esculentum lessen but the cucumber export actually increase sharply .
Neighboring countriesMost Dutch agricultural product are exported to Germany ( € 22.8 billion ) and Belgium ( € 10.2 billion ) . Together these two neighboring countries comprise 36 % of total Dutch agricultural exports . In the top 10 of export destination there were no alteration compared to 2017 and also the social club of the countries did n’t change .
The boastful absolute increases in Dutch farming export in 2018 were to Japan ( + € 110 million ) , Morocco ( + € 93 million ) , Poland ( + € 86 million ) , Russia ( + € 77 million ) and China ( + 66 million ) .
The large rank decreases were to Germany ( -310 billion euros ) , France ( -97 billion euros ) and the United Kingdom ( -72 billion euro ) .
Export growth to Japan was in the main thanks to pork barrel and beverage . For Poland the growth of yield exports is increasing , while more cut flowers are being exported to Russia .
With agricultural moment a similar image without major alteration .
Minister Carol Schouten praise the Dutch agricultural and horticultural sector on the ground of the young figures as an “ important player when it fall to grow food for a growing worldly concern universe . ” LTO ’s Marc Calon had the following chemical reaction : " With our exports we make an important contribution to the Dutch economy . It ’s a genteelness ground for origination . Dutch husbandman and mart cultivator , but also the quietus of the chemical chain , research every twenty-four hours for solutions refer the mood , biodiversity and closing cycles . We are leading the elbow room precisely because we have such a strong position in the populace marketplace . "
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