[HN Gopher] Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricu...
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Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products
Author : jseliger
Score : 20 points
Date : 2024-03-25 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.washingtonpost.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| The Netherlands is a good example of intensive agriculture: not
| only have they put heavy capital investments into the land they
| already had, they even invested substantial amounts of capital in
| creating _new_ land.
| Reubend wrote:
| If you'd asked me which country was the 2nd largest exporter of
| agricultural products, I certainly wouldn't have said the
| Netherlands. It's cool to see what they're doing to maximize
| efficiency, and I hope that efficiency can be replicated globally
| as well.
| VeejayRampay wrote:
| very poor quality though, if you've had dutch tomatoes or
| peppers, you'll know
|
| I'd be interested in the nutritional value of said products as
| well
| Rinzler89 wrote:
| Yep, the tomatoes coming from Spain, Italy, etc have a lot more
| flavor. NL is more like the Shenzhen of agriculture.
| belter wrote:
| There is nothing like driving from the Netherlands to
| Germany, going to the Supermarkt and buying cucumbers branded
| Origin Netherlands at 60% of their price in the
| Netherlands...
|
| https://northerntimes.nl/dutch-shoppers-flock-to-german-
| supe...
| zoover2020 wrote:
| Not disagreeing here, but how I understand it, the year-round
| availability of fresh produce is a quality trade-off.
| ricardobeat wrote:
| But they look incredible on the shelves!
| ragebol wrote:
| Big discussion in the Netherlands now, and going on to some
| extent for decades already, about: does it make sense for such a
| small country to have this much intensive agriculture?
|
| As the article mentions, the nitrogen deposited in the little
| patches of what should pass for nature are killing it.
|
| Nice to be self-sufficient in food, but we're more than that in
| some areas. But say something negative about farmers and you'll
| have protesters in big tractors blocking highways and city
| centers.
|
| The parties currently trying to form a government will only let
| these problems fester and not make hard choices to put an end to
| them one way or another.
| ragebol wrote:
| Big discussion in the Netherlands now, and going on to some
| extent for decades already, about: does it make sense for such a
| small country to have this much intensive agriculture?
|
| As the article mentions, the nitrogen deposited in the little
| patches of what should pass for nature are killing it.
|
| Nice to be self-sufficient in food, but we're more than that in
| some areas. But say something negative about farmers and you'll
| have protesters in big tractors blocking highways and city
| centers.
|
| The parties currently trying to form a government will only let
| these problems fester and not make hard choices to put an end to
| them one way or another.
| NicoJuicy wrote:
| Yeah well.
|
| Those things grow the quickest because they were cultivated to
| absorb the most water.
|
| So there's little taste and advantages with those, compared to
| others.
|
| So yeah, great. But numbers only say part of the story.
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