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How the Netherlands takes the path of efficient agriculture?

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Update time : 2017-09-22 11:46:54
The Netherlands is a small country in Europe, but it is the second largest exporter of agriculture outside the United States, with net exports of more than $ 30 billion annually. The Netherlands out of a road to efficient agriculture, the Netherlands is how to do? Other countries can copy it?

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People often use the "small country big cause" to describe the economic characteristics of the Netherlands. The Dutch area of ​​only 40,000 square kilometers, but its agricultural products are high quality, high yield is famous, flowers and seeds for many years the world's first export volume.

Netherlands "high cost of land", long winter, the development of agriculture and animal husbandry has many unfavorable factors. But the Dutch hard work and intelligence to a large extent make up for the "inherent deficiencies." Industrious Dutch people know how to maximize the use of limited land, and through innovation to the agricultural affixed with ecological labels. The greenhouse area of ​​the Netherlands is about 110 million square meters, accounting for 1/4 of the world's glass greenhouse area. It is mainly used for planting flowers and vegetables. The annual output value is as high as US $ 1.2 billion, which is one of the important economic pillars of the Netherlands. 

Dutch agriculture is characterized by high input, high output, that is, through the capital-intensive advanced technology to achieve high efficiency, and all this requires the strong support of advanced agricultural science and technology. The Netherlands attaches great importance to the development of science and technology, the national education and research funds account for 19.1% of the country's total budget, much higher than other departments, and agricultural research is one of the important areas. In 2008, government spending on agricultural research and development reached 411 million US dollars, significantly higher than the United Kingdom and other European powers. In addition, the Netherlands "agricultural research, promotion and education" Trinity "by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Department is responsible for the effective integration of resources for the development of agricultural science and technology to provide a convenient.

Dutch land resources are not rich, per capita farmland area of ​​0.1 hectares. One of the direct consequences of a large number of people is that food production is difficult to fully meet the consumer demand, the need for a large number of imports. Dutch cereal imports are above 11 million tonnes.

Dutch agricultural added value has fallen to 2% of GDP, and industrial results are optimized. The proportion of the agricultural employment in the Netherlands is less than 3%, with about 3% of the labor force, creating about 2% of the value of labor productivity is relatively high. The Netherlands produces 54.4 tonnes of vegetables per hectare, and the Dutch land productivity is relatively high.

The Netherlands accounted for 7.4% of organic agriculture area, and the Netherlands, the amount of pesticide application and fertilizer application is low, the quality of agricultural products is better.

The main agricultural products in the Netherlands, only the net imports of cereals, other products are net exports, their agricultural self-sufficiency and trade advantages are relatively strong.