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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by dmurray on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:49AM (#21352769)
Wow - according to one source "The Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural products, after the USA" [0]. Sure, it has good quality soil and high tech farming, but it's amazing that can make up for the sheer lack of space. It's smaller than all but 9 US states, and it's not rural either - it's more populous than all but 4.

[0] https://www.hollandtradeandinvest.com/key-sectors/agricultur...

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by PeterisP on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:36AM (#21353572)
Agricultural products have very, very large differences in value density, and one that Netherlands is seriously exploiting.

Ten acres of corn has much less value than ten acres of roses, so growing flowers is a major export industry for Netherlands.

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by dmurray on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:11AM (#21354164)
That's part of it, but looks like only about €9b of €90b total [0]. Meat, dairy and vegetables are all comparable; certainly the east of the country seems to be all cows. Cereals don't crack the top ten categories, though.

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2018/03/dutch-agricultural-exp...

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