The Dutch are both cursed and blessed that they are surrounded by water. Their soil is very fertile and productive, which cannot be said about soil found elsewhere in the world. That is only part of the story of course, but it helps the Dutch are very smart and make good use of their strengths.
I work in a greenhouse for tomatoes myself and we have about 18 hectare that is about equal to 1% of the amount of tomato greenhouses in the Netherlands. Last year we had a yield of 10 million kilo tomatoes. you do the math
Thank you Mert I as an dutch man become more en more proud of my homeland by your movies and becouse we consume lots dary we are the tallest of the globe ❤❤😊
There is a specialised University in Wageningen in the Netherlands where all knowledge about farming (as the Dutch now are doing) is shared. Majority of the students are not Dutch
I remember having "school milk" when I was young. It wasn't free, more like something your parents payed for, but you'd get a "juicebox" with milk every lunch.
As a small Dutch boy, born in 1959, I grew up with a lot of milk. When I reached puberty, I drank at least 1.5 to 2 liters of milk a day. No soft drinks, but mainly milk. Whole milk, no skimmed milk. My parents also bought the milk directly from the farmer for years. It was skimmed and made into butter or whipped cream. The milk was boiled and then put in the refrigerator. I still drink a lot of milk. My parents and grandparents also drank a lot of milk (fresh from the farm) and they got quite old with it.
I think the Milk and jodium in bread and salt, made us the largest people in the world im 1, 92 cm and im everich. My litle brother is 2,10 cm and my brotherr in law 2,15 cm. So i feel looked down on every Day. Thats why i like small Girls. 😂
(I'm Dutch) I wish I could still drink milk all I wanted. But turns out I have a milk intolerance. I LOOOVEEE milk, but it give me an ache in my stomach and sides. (intestines) So I can only drink a little bit every now and then, sadly.
A lot of those food exports are actually transit foods from all over the world. The Dutch produce a lot of food, but they also trade a lot of food. That's why we're on this - let's be honest - crazy second place after the US.
There are only 100 thousand farmers in the Netherlands, but they hold 70 percent of the total ground. 18 millions others have to share the rest. The agriculture industry here is the most polluting in the EU. So yes, there are some downsides.
Fertilizer should be used sparingly. First issues are the production and transport of fertilizers. If you need less fertilizer then you save quite a bit environmentally speaking. Also, fertilizers tend to get washed out of the soil they were put on, polluting the groundwater and run off and therefor the surface water, with pretty bad ecological consequences as a result (think algae bloom for example). Last but not least, fertilizers are expensive.
It's the Nitrogen in the fertilizer that makes plants grow so fast. But the amounts of Nitrogen used by our farmers is beyond the European limits so our farmers have to use less Nitrogen.
Its killing bottom life. And, it makes grass grow on sand and thats killing the dunes and heide fields. We are Lucky to be on the ground we have a lot of heavy clay, when the water is managed its onr of the best grounds in the world. We are living in the delta ofseveral big rivers like the rijn and meas. And its flat and smooth land. So building al the infra was much more easy and less Costs per km then most of the countries. We have spent the surplus on the bigg wonders like the waterworks " afsluitdijk" etcetera. 😊
6:30 The amount of money and work that you can create on the same area of land is much higher when put buildings on it (especially offices) instead of when you use it for farming. Farming takes up A LOT of land.
09:00 doing less fertilazer is better for the soil, you need many different worms in it but when you fertilaze the soil you kill the good and important little animals who life in the sand/clay etc.
We do make a crazy amount ourselfs, but don't forget that the banana's that come in via Rotterdam and go to germany count as export to. So the numbers are bigger than what we made ourselfs. The efficienty is not because of efficienty or the enviourment for most greenhouse farmers. Its laws and money. They are not willing to send a cent more then they need to. And yes it did effect the goods. Dutch tomato's were known as waterbombs for a long time. Yes i grew up in this area.
you really need to react to. Andre van duin he is one of the best comedians like trouwen of school those are 2 of hes best scenes you can probably find them on youtube with subtitles but some times you can see the joke already with hes facial expressions or body movements
U might find the Anglo-Dutch wars interesting ( i do) Biggest battles in the age of sail (100's on each side) and huge impact on history for both countries ( and the world)
Last question about the issues(demonstrations) dutch farmers today has to do with the rules coming from europarlement. They say we must reduce co2 and therefore less cattle, less manure etc. But they don't look at the figures. Per unit (kg) the Netherlands produce less per Kilogram. But yes the amount is huge. EU wise every country must reduce with 20% (i believe that was the figure. But the Netherlands has done that already in the past with there innovations. Greenhouses for food coming from plants. And many other things around livestock is implemented to reduce the effects on the nature. But honestly we should do still more but other countries are just starting to look at the issue.
It now is about nitrogen (stikstof) and its chemical 'friends' like ammonia. We overload our environment with it and everything will die. No mosquitoes, no swallows. No swallows, no summer.
The knowledge how the dutch farming of vegetables is shared with several countries. For instance with Israël, Dubai, other Arabian countries also and many more.
As a Dutch here i always thinks the comparison to the US being first and we being second is unfair. we are just one country and the US basically is like the EU an group of states (country's) So as a country we are number1! 🙂
There is a Dutch slogan 'Met Melk Meer Mans' (roughly in English with milk more strong). I'm 52 now but I drank and still drink atleast 1 glass of milk every day. Because of the high production it's relativly cheap in The Netherlands. And perhaps its the reason why Dutch men are so tall. 😂
Cow, pigs, horses, hay, turf manuere helps it growing veggies and fruit😊😮one point its strong gas warm the earth up from the fertilizer in the 90s to now😅
My country tends to use too much fertilizer, despite there being an EU law about how much you can use, Germany has failed for at least 10 years. Seems as if the fines are pay able why change! It makes me angry, as our water gets cleaned and we as small people have to pay for this excess. It is expensive to clean water and farmers do not have to pay to foot this bill.
The exces of fertiliser affects the biodiversity of the surroundings. And that leads to mass extinction of some plant and insect species. And that makes the whole eco culture vulnerable. (When you have a mono culture of plants ,and insects then can one virus or mold enact devastation to the surroundings without any possibility to contain the threat ) A funny observation that is done but with a sad undertone is , that 40 years ago when you drove with your car through the polder and you made a trip of 100KM about 400 insects would smash against your windshield now that number is not more than 40. So you live in Malaysia but your origin is Scotland I guess so here is an example that you would understand. If all the midges would disappear from Scotland then you would have a complete shift in landscape one that you would not recognise in one generation.
Fertilisers bring Nitrogen into the soil, also mobilising heavy metals in the soil. Not good for groundwater quality where we get a good portion of our drinking water from. At university I was taught that if we stop now with fertilizers, we will still have too fertile soil in 100 years time.
It washes, with rain, from the fields into the ditches. There a soup of algae grows because of too much nutrients. In that green pea soup all other water life dies. No frogs, no storks. No storks, no new babies... And we did it.
Synthetic fertiliser kills the microbes in the ground. For millions of years, plants and microbes in the ground have a symbiotic relationship where they feed each other what each of them need. Synthetic fertiliser gives plants what they need, so the microbes don't get anything anymore, and die. This is not necessarily bad for us or the plants, but it perpetuates the need for synthetic fertiliser, and that stuff is a finite resource - it is a bad idea to become solely reliant on it.
The effect of fertilizer on nature is increasing the deposit of NItrogen oxides (especiallyammonia). The problem with that is that it has a terrible effect on wildlife. The first layer to be negatively effected are funghi and insects. The funghi are used by trees and shrubs to extract nutrients from the soil. No Funghi means no trees. Insects are negatively impacted by the (partially) dissolving of the exo-skeleton. This leads to less insects and thus less food for animals praying on insects. Birds especially are hit hard as the eggshells are getting softer due to worse quality insects (containing less calcium). The only solution left is for (especially dairy) farmers to be bought out and reduce the nitrogen oxides output by farmers who have been distroying nature for decades.
7:51 you need to invest (upfront cost) you can't compete in price with NL who is already doing it and probably already made more money than they invested AND you need expertise AND it takes years to get to this point through experience and more investments.
thank you for appreaciating my country.! The Netherlands is a very small country, but we are so important to the entire world...!! it's something i should be proud of, but yet i want to leave to like Scottland or maybe Sweden even.... (please don't ask why)
let's half the live stock and watch more people die of hunger because the prices go up... and then watch how other countries replace our meat industry while using not even half of the regulations we have here, see how that works out for the climate.
Your vids makes my life a bit better, these vids only tell te great thing about the netherlands but we have enough problems: a shortage of houses, a terrible number of asylum seekers (also related to a shortage of houses)
@@PrinceWalacra because of laws that the eu made... also, the tree huggers lie to you, they exaggerate. they use climate as a means to an end and the end is total control over our lifes. for instance: windmills at sea, and 'biofuel' plants do more damage to nature than modern coal plants do. electric cars are not cleaner they just move the pollution to africa or china.
But in the proces we polluted the water, soil and air with nitrogen, phosphate and pesticides, herbicides and insecticides. 99% of our waterways doesn’t come even close to the EU waterdirective, we list 85% of biodiversity. Animal welfare is bad, only 2% of GDP but more than 50% of the pollution. To much cattle produce to much shit, methan. For every hectare we use 3 hectares abroad.
The Dutch are both cursed and blessed that they are surrounded by water. Their soil is very fertile and productive, which cannot be said about soil found elsewhere in the world. That is only part of the story of course, but it helps the Dutch are very smart and make good use of their strengths.
I work in a greenhouse for tomatoes myself and we have about 18 hectare that is about equal to 1% of the amount of tomato greenhouses in the Netherlands. Last year we had a yield of 10 million kilo tomatoes. you do the math
Thank you Mert I as an dutch man become more en more proud of my homeland by your movies and becouse we consume lots dary we are the tallest of the globe ❤❤😊
There is a specialised University in Wageningen in the Netherlands where all knowledge about farming (as the Dutch now are doing) is shared. Majority of the students are not Dutch
i was born in Wageningen, is that why i,m so intelligent.!?!?
whahahah
@@ricokramer7716 yes for sure 😃
@@ricokramer7716pannenkoek
@@ricokramer7716you are Dutch we are all smarter 😂
That doesnt sound like a smart idea.... Majority of students not from the country itself?!
Sounds like a disaster in the making.
I remember having "school milk" when I was young. It wasn't free, more like something your parents payed for, but you'd get a "juicebox" with milk every lunch.
As a small Dutch boy, born in 1959, I grew up with a lot of milk. When I reached puberty, I drank at least 1.5 to 2 liters of milk a day. No soft drinks, but mainly milk. Whole milk, no skimmed milk. My parents also bought the milk directly from the farmer for years. It was skimmed and made into butter or whipped cream. The milk was boiled and then put in the refrigerator. I still drink a lot of milk. My parents and grandparents also drank a lot of milk (fresh from the farm) and they got quite old with it.
Born 1961, same here apart from the farmers milk that is 😊
I think the Milk and jodium in bread and salt, made us the largest people in the world im 1, 92 cm and im everich. My litle brother is 2,10 cm and my brotherr in law 2,15 cm. So i feel looked down on every Day. Thats why i like small Girls. 😂
@@rubenboerde9935NEVER SAY SMALL GIRLS EVER AGAIN
(I'm Dutch) I wish I could still drink milk all I wanted. But turns out I have a milk intolerance. I LOOOVEEE milk, but it give me an ache in my stomach and sides. (intestines) So I can only drink a little bit every now and then, sadly.
Born in 1953 in the Netherlands, I still remember we had mandatory milk at school!
i assume as long as you are lactose tolerant
@@lavamagnet1000 Honestly, we never heard of that in the 60's
From 1968 myself, I can still taste the free milk.. and indeed we never heard of lactose intolerance 😂
Proud to be Dutch 🇳🇱
Weird, no mention of the Wageningen University ...
A lot of those food exports are actually transit foods from all over the world. The Dutch produce a lot of food, but they also trade a lot of food. That's why we're on this - let's be honest - crazy second place after the US.
There are only 100 thousand farmers in the Netherlands, but they hold 70 percent of the total ground. 18 millions others have to share the rest. The agriculture industry here is the most polluting in the EU. So yes, there are some downsides.
@@hardyvonwinterstein5445 nonsense
Fertilizer should be used sparingly. First issues are the production and transport of fertilizers. If you need less fertilizer then you save quite a bit environmentally speaking. Also, fertilizers tend to get washed out of the soil they were put on, polluting the groundwater and run off and therefor the surface water, with pretty bad ecological consequences as a result (think algae bloom for example). Last but not least, fertilizers are expensive.
It's the Nitrogen in the fertilizer that makes plants grow so fast. But the amounts of Nitrogen used by our farmers is beyond the European limits so our farmers have to use less Nitrogen.
Its killing bottom life. And, it makes grass grow on sand and thats killing the dunes and heide fields. We are Lucky to be on the ground we have a lot of heavy clay, when the water is managed its onr of the best grounds in the world. We are living in the delta ofseveral big rivers like the rijn and meas. And its flat and smooth land. So building al the infra was much more easy and less Costs per km then most of the countries. We have spent the surplus on the bigg wonders like the waterworks " afsluitdijk" etcetera. 😊
6:30 The amount of money and work that you can create on the same area of land is much higher when put buildings on it (especially offices) instead of when you use it for farming. Farming takes up A LOT of land.
09:00 doing less fertilazer is better for the soil, you need many different worms in it but when you fertilaze the soil you kill the good and important little animals who life in the sand/clay etc.
I'am 48. And drink 5 to 7 liters of milk a week.
We do make a crazy amount ourselfs, but don't forget that the banana's that come in via Rotterdam and go to germany count as export to. So the numbers are bigger than what we made ourselfs.
The efficienty is not because of efficienty or the enviourment for most greenhouse farmers. Its laws and money. They are not willing to send a cent more then they need to.
And yes it did effect the goods. Dutch tomato's were known as waterbombs for a long time.
Yes i grew up in this area.
you really need to react to. Andre van duin he is one of the best comedians like trouwen of school those are 2 of hes best scenes you can probably find them on youtube with subtitles but some times you can see the joke already with hes facial expressions or body movements
U might find the Anglo-Dutch wars interesting ( i do)
Biggest battles in the age of sail (100's on each side) and huge impact on history for both countries ( and the world)
Very diverse and creative content on this channel!….
Last question about the issues(demonstrations) dutch farmers today has to do with the rules coming from europarlement. They say we must reduce co2 and therefore less cattle, less manure etc. But they don't look at the figures. Per unit (kg) the Netherlands produce less per Kilogram.
But yes the amount is huge. EU wise every country must reduce with 20% (i believe that was the figure. But the Netherlands has done that already in the past with there innovations. Greenhouses for food coming from plants. And many other things around livestock is implemented to reduce the effects on the nature. But honestly we should do still more but other countries are just starting to look at the issue.
It now is about nitrogen (stikstof) and its chemical 'friends' like ammonia. We overload our environment with it and everything will die. No mosquitoes, no swallows. No swallows, no summer.
The knowledge how the dutch farming of vegetables is shared with several countries. For instance with Israël, Dubai, other Arabian countries also and many more.
@7:00 ... more co2 = more food
6:36 for compressoren the dutch grow tomatoes with 8 liters of water us and other countries does it with 11 or more
As a Dutch here i always thinks the comparison to the US being first and we being second is unfair. we are just one country and the US basically is like the EU an group of states (country's) So as a country we are number1! 🙂
There is a Dutch slogan 'Met Melk Meer Mans' (roughly in English with milk more strong). I'm 52 now but I drank and still drink atleast 1 glass of milk every day. Because of the high production it's relativly cheap in The Netherlands. And perhaps its the reason why Dutch men are so tall. 😂
Cow, pigs, horses, hay, turf manuere helps it growing veggies and fruit😊😮one point its strong gas warm the earth up from the fertilizer in the 90s to now😅
My country tends to use too much fertilizer, despite there being an EU law about how much you can use, Germany has failed for at least 10 years. Seems as if the fines are pay able why change! It makes me angry, as our water gets cleaned and we as small people have to pay for this excess. It is expensive to clean water and farmers do not have to pay to foot this bill.
The exces of fertiliser affects the biodiversity of the surroundings. And that leads to mass extinction of some plant and insect species. And that makes the whole eco culture vulnerable. (When you have a mono culture of plants ,and insects then can one virus or mold enact devastation to the surroundings without any possibility to contain the threat ) A funny observation that is done but with a sad undertone is , that 40 years ago when you drove with your car through the polder and you made a trip of 100KM about 400 insects would smash against your windshield now that number is not more than 40. So you live in Malaysia but your origin is Scotland I guess so here is an example that you would understand. If all the midges would disappear from Scotland then you would have a complete shift in landscape one that you would not recognise in one generation.
Fertilisers bring Nitrogen into the soil, also mobilising heavy metals in the soil. Not good for groundwater quality where we get a good portion of our drinking water from. At university I was taught that if we stop now with fertilizers, we will still have too fertile soil in 100 years time.
It washes, with rain, from the fields into the ditches. There a soup of algae grows because of too much nutrients. In that green pea soup all other water life dies.
No frogs, no storks. No storks, no new babies... And we did it.
No link to Source? Oh I see. it is a video that been taken down.
I mean... biggest exports of the Netherlands currently is WI-FI.
And ASML.
Synthetic fertiliser kills the microbes in the ground. For millions of years, plants and microbes in the ground have a symbiotic relationship where they feed each other what each of them need. Synthetic fertiliser gives plants what they need, so the microbes don't get anything anymore, and die. This is not necessarily bad for us or the plants, but it perpetuates the need for synthetic fertiliser, and that stuff is a finite resource - it is a bad idea to become solely reliant on it.
The effect of fertilizer on nature is increasing the deposit of NItrogen oxides (especiallyammonia). The problem with that is that it has a terrible effect on wildlife. The first layer to be negatively effected are funghi and insects. The funghi are used by trees and shrubs to extract nutrients from the soil. No Funghi means no trees. Insects are negatively impacted by the (partially) dissolving of the exo-skeleton. This leads to less insects and thus less food for animals praying on insects. Birds especially are hit hard as the eggshells are getting softer due to worse quality insects (containing less calcium). The only solution left is for (especially dairy) farmers to be bought out and reduce the nitrogen oxides output by farmers who have been distroying nature for decades.
Every day some milk products
Could you tell me how much is a L of milk costs over there?
7:51 you need to invest (upfront cost) you can't compete in price with NL who is already doing it and probably already made more money than they invested AND you need expertise AND it takes years to get to this point through experience and more investments.
thank you for appreaciating my country.!
The Netherlands is a very small country, but we are so important to the entire world...!!
it's something i should be proud of, but yet i want to leave to like Scottland or maybe Sweden even.... (please don't ask why)
🐩💨
Fertilizer affects the quality of the water in the ground and it smells really bad
How to get so big.
Maby you could dive in the
Dutch meat industry." In 2019, the Netherlands earned 8.7 billion euros from total meat sales"
It also has downsides.
let's half the live stock and watch more people die of hunger because the prices go up... and then watch how other countries replace our meat industry while using not even half of the regulations we have here, see how that works out for the climate.
Your vids makes my life a bit better, these vids only tell te great thing about the netherlands but we have enough problems: a shortage of houses, a terrible number of asylum seekers (also related to a shortage of houses)
Feeds the WORLD????????????????????????????????
They now want to destroy the farming in the netherlands
The over exploitating agro-industry destroys its own natural source; soil, water and air is being polluted by fertiliser and pesticides.
@@PrinceWalacra because of laws that the eu made... also, the tree huggers lie to you, they exaggerate.
they use climate as a means to an end and the end is total control over our lifes.
for instance: windmills at sea, and 'biofuel' plants do more damage to nature than modern coal plants do. electric cars are not cleaner they just move the pollution to africa or china.
IT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY ,AL THOSE AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES !!! [ VERY BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT !!
The history is not always nice. The biggest company ever. 7.9 biljoen dollar to day.
Yep. But don't forget that the Netherlands was in the mean time stripped bare by the French twice, and by the Germans once since that time.
No 7 trillion it would be in current value. VoC 🇳🇱
But in the proces we polluted the water, soil and air with nitrogen, phosphate and pesticides, herbicides and insecticides. 99% of our waterways doesn’t come even close to the EU waterdirective, we list 85% of biodiversity. Animal welfare is bad, only 2% of GDP but more than 50% of the pollution. To much cattle produce to much shit, methan. For every hectare we use 3 hectares abroad.