How Netherlands is Secretly Becoming Insanely Rich & Powerful
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2023
- Today we take a look at a seemingly small country that has power well beyond its size. The Netherlands are rising to power once again post their colonial days. Join us as we explain how the Dutch are controversially using their farming, food and technological advancements to grow wealth and power on the global stage.
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We don't have coffeeshops in order to attract tourists. We have those because they are the right thing to have when compared to criminalization. We don't innovate to 'attract tourists' at all, we don't really care about attracting tourists. That is a weird foreign perspective(aka, a tourist centric perspective) to me. Tourists just also happens as a byproduct of making the country nice for us ourselves to live in. We are not a tourism based economy like Greece or Thailand.
we should move to compleet legalization instead of half assing it with coffee shops
Sad truth for Greece 😢
Our farmers should grow more grass 😂
And that is how things should be.
@@daniela.septembre7936 dont you want more legalization? having it half assed just means that crimiminal empires can get rich of weed if you have state grown weed the quality will increase and criminals now have to compete with the state.
I have been visiting NL for the last 30 years on business - Everything works - Everything is superb quality-The people are professional polite and incredibly efficient. The roads are the best in Europe - Everything you need in this world you will find in NL
Thnx.🌷
Where are you from?
@@parisgermain523 Is the question for me? The tulip🌷 represents the Netherlands. I don't have to ask where you come from with such a beautiful name you use, or is that not so?
@@ariedijker2911 I'm from Holland, the question was obviously for @markslowen11 who said he's been visiting the Netherlands for the last 30 years and because of his compliments I'd like to know where he's from (for comparison).
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Quick fact check after 58 seconds. (From a Dutchman).
We are not the second largest exporter of food, we are the second largest exporter of agricultural products. The biggest reason for this is that we export a lot of flowers. We are in fact the fourth largest exporter of food products as of 2020, which is the year from which the most recent (actually reliable) data is easily available to the public.
To be fair check netto exports not that mutch and mostly of that is animal products or epscalling of inporta
Why do dutch people always have to be a know-it-all trying to correct people 🙄i doubt being dutch and not being dutch has any effect on research.
It does, u just dont know it yet 😂
@@ashleyproostentousalwa You are right. Sorry if the fact I mentioned my nationality (between parentheses) offended you somehow lol
I think you will find a lot of comments on various videos mention similar things (as a Muslim, as a person of color, as a person affected by x natural disaster, etcetera).
@@ashleyproostentousalwa Oh and also, being Dutch may not have an effect on the research, but speaking and reading Dutch certainly does.
We may be a very rich country, more and more people don't profit from that.
The amount of, even working, people who have difficulties paying their bills is growing, the cost of living is growing hard.
A growing number of people live in poverty.
And a lot of people, even working, are depending on food banks.
its crazy. thats why im leaving this land
It’s not just us, we’re still holding it together pretty well actually but I’m afraid that it won’t last long till we don’t, the whole world is currently experiencing it and idk what’s next.
And they want to feed us with insects and Glysofaat.
@@TheyCalledHimTheDude Als jij niet genoeg geld kan verdienen in Nederland waarom denk jij het wel te kunnen in andere landen?
@@tomjaap2933 huizenprijzen zijn soms een 1 derde van hier. En soms nog minder in ons buurland waar je nog koopjes met werk tegenkomt. Boodschappen en brandstof zijn goedkoper. Dus die voordeeltjes gaan wij pakken. Mn pa is al falliet sinds de grote C tijd. En mijn bedrijf word sinds die tijd ook keihard afgestraft in de klassieke auto en motor wereld. Dus ik moet de stekker dr uit trekken en omscholen voor die hele sector omvalt. dus ik ga werken en leren en opnieuw beginnen in een sector waar wel toekomst inzit. Pand in de verkoop en daar iets terugkopen voor 1 derde of zelfs een kwart en dan 3 keer zoveel terug kunnen kopen aan ruimte. dus geen hypotheek meer. van de rest gaat mn pa tot zn aow overbruggen en ik ga de rekeningen betalen en hopelijk kunnen we dan samen rondkomen terwijl ik diploma.s ga halen en langzaam een nieuwe carriere opbouw. Met hard werken en blijven doorleren.
what i find baffling is we are one of the biggest producers of food and the way food prices shot up the last year is just insane. you'd think we'd just up the prices for transport but it seems like theyre trying to take it from their own people. nowadays alot of people near the border of Germany do their groceries there because the same product is alot cheaper.
Newsflash, 90% of the food produced in NL goes to foreign countries. The food that we eat gets imported. We don't need the farmers all that much, they need us much more.
Greedinvlation
Our government is actively trying to handicap our farmers with new rules and regulations, we won't be the 2nd largest food exporter for long. why do you think the farmers where protesting not too long ago.
That's because there is a lot more taxes to collect by selling it to other countries
yeah, you can blame the farmers for that mostly.
Imagine becoming a food superpower and not having any place to house the next generation
True that and only because we wanted to limit our fucking emissions. Like bro look around you other counties emit a 100x the pollution and we’re here crying cause of some small amount of pollution
Time to take a piece of Belgium I think haha
This is actually a very big problem in the Netherlands right now. But as we have proven before, we will find a solution
tijdje geleden werd er geroepen vol=vol. dacht je soms dat het een grap was?
The quest for eternal economic growth.
Happy to see ASML getting some well deserved attention. I have been doing project for them for 2 years now. And it's just plain crazy what this company has achieved and has planned for the futere.
Going even beyond what most people would ever guess.
Such as??
So long it last, Dutch people tend to screw up big times when they are on top, just google new amsterdam, tulip crash, VOC and many more.
@@Gcorporaalso dominating global spice trade for 200 years is screwing up?
@@Gcorporaal new amsterdam was nothing when we owned it yet suriname was rich in spices, at the time we made a very profitable trade with england, speaking of england, the voc went bankrupt because england improved its navy, there wasnt a lot we could do towards that, if youre gonna talk about history atleast do it in an accurate way
@@ameliazepeda7247 Think you should brush up on your history too then because suriname was taken by the dutch not traded but was made official with the vrede van breda although it was a peace treaty with a gun in our back because we lost our biggest colonie to the brits and our navy was also losing big times because we had stopped innovating/lost our edge that the brits navy could beat us before that time the dutch navy was the strongest.
And that was the point I was trying to make when we dutch our on top we lose our edge quickly.
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My best assumption is that they currently want to be free of the dollar in order to have a defense against sanctions. America and Europe believe they can accomplish anything.
If you'd divide the total amount of gold reserves with the total population, "we" already are the richest country in the world. Despite this, most citizens are struggling to get by. Which tells you a lot about where all this wealth is ending up.
don't believe this post. 7% of our population lives in what we call poverty. That still is way to much for a rich country, but to use the sentence : most citizens are struggling: is just not true. Poverty in the Netherlands is very relative if you compare it to poverty in other countries in the rest of the world.
its just that shit is expensive as fuck. and say whatever you want with your conspiracy theories we are still the top 20 countries to live in mayebe top 10
@@Nature31 Statistics, lol. Just like closing the foodbanks throughout the country, to deny poverty in order to save face in front of the EU. Just because it doesn't affect you, doesn't make it not true. The word "poverty" might be vulnerable to semantics, but clearly too many people are still living in a bubble.
I congratulate the Netherlands for their innovation. We in the UK could learn a lot in both land reclamation and food production.
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We could learn a lot from you guys... For example Brexit, im jealous. Right now we don't decide anything in our country, no Brussels must decide everything for us...
@@woutermeijer2374 honestly wouter you don't know how bad it is here. Our politicians are doing everything they can to reverse Brexit. Nigel Farage has been given virtual exile had all his accounts closed so he can't access money or pay bills. It really is serious.
We are giving land back to the sea and rivers. Many great innovative industries are sold to foreign countries. Or foreign companIIes anyway.
@@woutermeijer2374 cause that continuously rising inflation in the UK is nice
Farmers are being destroyed, energy independency is being destroyed, and small and medium sized businesses are being destroyed. All while our money system is on its last breath. Yet Netherlands is secretly becoming insanely rich and powerful, haha. Maybe if you meant as a hub for the global nwo I would agree 🤣
Er zit wel wat logica achter maar niet veel, hier is waarom.
De overheid wil veel boeren omkopen om meer huizen te bouwen en meer belasting te ontvangen, hiermee zullen ze de gevolgen mee betalen zoals: minder banen en minder voedel.
Nederland wil een perfect land worden waar alles loopt zoals in het boekje staat, iedereen staat op gaat naar werk (of niet want ja uitkering) en doet dit voor de rest van hun leven totdat je dood gaat en je resten ook nog belast worden en dan pas worden gegeven aan de familie, ze zorgen ervoor dat je genoeg belasting moet betalen om niet te kunnen groeien in je financiën.
Exactly. Being a Dutch citizen is becoming more and more difficult.
You're talking about our failing government. This video describes the agricultural innovations that will make NL as one of the global leaders in food production.
The winners are the banks and the large corporations. The real workers are considered useless eaters by the elite ... It is time to turn the tables.
When i grew up in the Netherlands in the 80's and 90's it was one of the best countries in the world to live in. That time is long gone. People are struggling to pay their bills nowadays. Evil politicians and mass immigration have completely destroyed the country. Yet every year 100.000 third world immigrants are welcomed into the country, while there is a housing shortage and the country is overpopulated...this can't go on for much longer. The Netherlands are on the edge of disaster...i'm glad i left the country on time.
You can't grow nutritious crops without RICH Soil. This all seems very smart but all those vegetables are just water without nutrients. An orange today has 8x less nutrients than one grown 100 years ago. Because of depletion of the soil, so that is where our focus should be, to create healthy soil with lots of organic material in it.
So end the chemical fertilizer and make the surplus manure into natural ferilizer? Sounds like a great way to do away with the manure (and nitrogen) problems not just in The Netherlands but quite a few other EU countries as well.
Not only that we need to restore soil biomes others wise soil will keep depleting
Enough cows and other farm animals that produce manor or fertilizer to keep the grounds rich in nutrients, and also the arable lands are rotating in the type of crops being cultivated.
Exactly!!! i got some borders in my garden, some with just ground, and some with a lot of organic material in it. You can guess wich one grows a lot better!!!
And everything tastes like shit in the nl
On a corporate scale our country is doing very well, but when you look at the citizens I can tell you that ime people have not been this unhappy with the government for a while. We are experiencing very high inflation and energy prices, way worse than other european countries. The big corporations like supermarkets only profit from the inflation by increasing the prices more than they need while we as normal citizens have to pay that difference.
no our inflantion rate is not way higher then other european countries its just that dutch news talks about well dutch news a lot. but believe our inflation is normal. as welll we use euros and most countries in the eu use euros
@@chigchong2805 Then would you explain that groceries and fuel prices are way cheaper in Germany? Clearly the euro has more buying power over there.
@@ianv3180 inflation and buying power are, nt the same thing though. I China in certain places other things are more expensive as well but the worth is still the same
Being from the Parkstad region i know that all too well. One of the poorest parts of the country. It's a struggle out here.
I'm dutch and the food is getting more and more expensive. If we produce so mutch food then why is it so expensive to buy a bag of local food?
We are not as great as it would seem.
Cost of energy soaring because of political decisions regarding COVID-19 mandates shutting down businesses and destroying economy. Sanctions against Russia also hurt us especially after America bombed the Nord Stream pipeline. We should be using gas from Groningen and use the profits to compensate damage to property as a result of earth tremors.
Countries with most gold also doesn’t mean the people from that country are rich or countries with most ressources are poorest due to corruption etc.
Kijk even op nieuwe oogst wat de boer/tuinder ervoor krijgt.
@@Don-po8vlso you’re saying that the government puts the money into their own pockets? 😂
@@miles5600 only saying that resources of a country doesn’t mean resources for the people of that country.
Imagine being a country that has 1/3 full of farms with lots of land, while there is a housing crisis where people can't buy or rent houses because there aren't enough! If you're ( like me ) in your late twenties, you'll hate this country right now for multiple reasons
When the food gets more rights than the humans😂 /j
Same boat over here. Not to mention not being compensated for losing my business during Covid. This country can go to hell, I have no business, everything the welfare system offers is total crap and I'm living back with my parents. Everything I gained in life I've also lost in this place with no prospect to a better future. As an entepeneur this is probably my worst nightmare come to reality.
Don't fear people, our Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, will ensure that we become the poorest country in the world in a short time!
Je mag em haten, maar je hoeft enkel naar de groei in GDP te kijken en dan begrijp je waarom dat niet snel zal gebeuren.
@@Remissio712 ,Ik haat ,m zeker niet,kwa mens lijkt die mij best aardig,alleen ,ach de rest zijn alleen maar mijn gedachtes..dus niet zo belangrijk voor een ander!
We are indeed succesfull. We still grow. Hardly no unemploment. This give also problems to build enough houses. Most living a luxery live, but there is still a 10 a 15% of the population suffer through the high inflation. This problem is not only a problem made by Rutte.
@@Remissio712 Ik heb gekeken naar de GDP groei, en die is gestagneerd, net als de rest van de wereld. Alle communistische en niet-Westerse landen doen het beter dan alle landen in de EU met hun lijnen die door het dak heen schieten. De Verenigde Staten is de enige in de Westerse wereld die een -kleine- GDP groei behoudt
@@Remissio712 Groei in de GDP zegt helemaal niks. kijk naar amerika rijkste land op aarde. is nog steeds de slechte geïndustrialiseerd land om in te wonen.
I understand the government is doing its best to stuff all this up but then what government isn’t.
Correct my friend ✅
It's time for us to ignore government and peacefully refuse to comply. Enough is enough.
Yeah, but here it seems to go beyond garden-variety incompetence and go into straight-up trying to destroy the country. The lockdowns were disastrous, the current nitrogen cuts / telling farmers to close shop are disastrous, them stopping to exploit their natural gas reserve is disastrous, them sanctioning Russia is disastrous because it leads to spiraling energy prices, and then letting tons of immigrants come in while there's already a huge housing shortage is disastrous. It's true that our country is pretty impressive but it's also in serious decline.
@@charlesponzi9608and do what exactly?
@@miles5600 Resist the destruction of our beautiful country by heavy opposition to the globalist agenda
I am from the Netherlands and I can say our food have lost to much taste. Like every other country in this world we have a government who’s trying to do us dirty. It feels like the next 10 years is gonna get worse and worse in every aspect.
As Polish expat in Netherlands I have to admit that vegetables, meat, bread, etc. Here is much less tasty than in my home country. Especially for me as for the most of my life I had access to food from local farmers, my family also have had small vegetables garden behind our house which gave us small "crops" every year.
But it's one of not many disadvantages of living here. Netherlands is a great country, I love a lot of things here
Old bread, new bread, or fresh, it all depends on what you buy and where you live. The same is true when it comes to buying from farmers
I actually like the tastes we have haha. Its better then in Italy were I am now. The tastes I dont really like except from the typical Italian food
@@AroLiberteSquadFood from home always has more taste. I think we passed the low on taste about 25 years ago. The trigger was a documentary aired on German TV how we grew vegetables. What we proudly showed was all high tech greenhousing but nothing naturel. The Hermans weten very displeased and Dutch tomatoes were nick 13:59 named wasserbomben (water bombs). This caused a major shift in Dutch agriculture. We stil have cheap tomatoes without taste but there is also a dozen of tomorrow kind available which are very tasty.
Same happened with strawberries. In the mid seventies they had developed the Confitura, a strawberry the size of a small apple, but no taste and you had to eat them with a sharp knife and fork. After 2 year of enthusiastic adoption they disappeared because nobody wanted them.
And as for potatoes the variety is also much larger than 25 years ago.
Our government is controlled by banks and large corporations.
Our government does not caer about people .... they just want their money and their work - we are no more than slaves.
Yeah nice video but please bear in mind that about 40% is just re exported using the port of Rotterdam. Pineapples do not grow in Europe! Furthermore about 25% are flowers. That leaves about 65%. Still enormous. The USA is the first producer. The Netherlands fits in the USA about 230 times.
A lot of it is also specialized machinery for agricultural purposes. We also export a ton of education in additon to seeds, biotechological sulutions like crop fertilization or innovative ways to plant food in just about every type of environment. We are even helping people plant crops sustainably in the desert.
We are the second largest in terms of how much all these exports earn in money, not in actual physical food exported. (though indirectly we do feed the world with our technology)
@@pinobluevogel6458 Exactly, this is what bugs me regarding the governments policies on reducing this industry. If we're truly trying to be less poluting, downgrading our own efficient production and making the necessary food elsewhere would do the opposite.
This goes for every trading nation. And it’s still MUCH more impressive that usa. You said it yourself. NL fits 230 times in America
Yet yall country fucked up to pieces and we here in Holland are keeping it together quite good
Pineapples do not yet grow in the netherland.
Netherlands is not the 2nd biggest food producer but the 2nd biggest food exporter. Over half of that is re export of foodstuff imported earlier..
Not even close we reprocess a lot of food.
Grain and soya as import.
Pork and milk products as export.
Right, the Netherlands is the 2nd largest food producer in *value* not in *volume*. It focusses on low volume high value food like vegetables, meat and dairy, while importing low value, high volume products like grain and soy. This has been true since the Middle Ages when gain was imported from the Baltic counties, while Dutch farmers were producing dairy and industrial produce like oil and hemp for shipping.
A second large mistake in the video is the connection between nitrogen oxide NO2 and farming, which does not exists. Animal husbandry produce NH3 (ammonia). These substances behave completely different with Ammonia being deposited much closer to its source. This is the very reason why intensive farms near nature is such a problem.
@martijnb58873 They both have a N in there chemical DNA.
The only reason why the farmer are pushed to stop farming is.
The food export to China.
The US absolutely needs this war whit China to get a beter credit score.
Too much nitrogen and still using fertilizer....😣
@@Be-Es---___we don't even know that besides what do you expect in a delta which is bydeway one of the most densely populated countries in the world
i am from the netherlands, and im a son of a farmer, and believe me....Being a farmer in the netherlands is tough, its all complicated rules, taking land of from you. Last year the government demanded that we should stay 3 meters off from the waterways, to prevend fertilizer and that stuff from coming in the waterways. We dont have a big farm, but with all land combined, we almost lose over 1/2 of a hectare in ground, and we cant grow anything on it. In the end its all nonsens, because what goes on the ground, gets in the water no matter what. You make it look like its all perfect here, but its absolutely not. We talked a lot about emigrating here. Because the tax level, and the prices of living a normal life, each month, are very high. With a basic income like 1600/1800 euros a month, its almost unduable with 4 kids. Im done with this government with puppet Rutte as prime minister, that doesnt remind anything, and laughs every problem away.
Ik ben trots op onze boeren. De Nederlanders steunen u en weten hoe belangrijk u bent voor onze gezondheid en toekomstige welvaart.
Rutte rot op!
"taking land off of you" don't lie, they literally pay you to buy it
@@schtormm not true, its still our land, but we cant grow anything on it, and we dont get a dime for it.
Emigrate to Canada and good riddance.
@@schtormm 0.42% of co2 comes from the Netherlands, b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but the cowfarts are killing us don't look at south america/china/india or you're a bigot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 India has multiple cities with twice the amount of cars in ONE CITY, than we have humans in the entire country, but we have to be the ones saving the muh planet!!!!!
Clown show
I’m Dutch. Nice video. There is one more thing that you forgot to mention. Our country is growing. We take land from the sea. We are world leader for construction waterworks. For example we made our Harbor in Rotterdam Maasvlakte 22.000.000 m2 bigger by taking land from the sea.
we zijn toch niet van plan nog meer water weg te pompen om land te maken ?
no, we are losing land to houses every year because of net migration. In this way we lose a lot of farmland.
@@mradventurer8104 that's not how gaining and losing land works maat.
@@mradventurer8104imagine conscription being re-enacted so much manpower.
@@mradventurer8104 We could always take a piece of Russia!
Some comments:
* tourists don't come for the coffee shops, there is much more.
* We don't produce that much food, we mostly revalue import goods through rotterdam, we don't have enough land to produce so many calories.
* Vertical farming is only nice for fresh food in inner cities, not for solving foods (bulk is mostly wheat, rice, potatoes, corn and other grains. They don't grow in greenhouses or growth chambers.
Jawel pepernoot, Nederland produceert wel zoveel voedsel.
@@chriss687 Nee, meeste is doorvoer vanuit Rotterdam. We zijn een verwaardingsland. Qua calorieën produceren we maar voor 10 miljoen mensen.
Well despite all these, in the last 5 years life in NL has objectively become worse.
When something seems to be too good to be true it often is.
All these (agricultural) innovations are a trade off between an abundance of cheap energy and food production. Cheap energy is coming to an end for the Netherlands while the agricultural innovation is not making up for the additional expenses. Dutch high tech green houses are now standing empty because the energy costs have spiraled out of control. Pioneering agricultural companies are folding left and right. As an example a 'meatless meat' producer filed for bankruptcy just this morning.
Then the energy transition - New companies in my Dutch neck of the woods are being denied access to the energy grid because the energy transition is proving to be far more complex and costly than envisioned. As a consequence billions worth of new chip building industries could now move abroad. At the same time ludicrously strict environmental restrictions combined with aggressive Anglo-American asset stripping of existing companies are rapidly de-industrializing my Netherlands.
As an afterthought - On paper the Dutch may appear to be one of the richest nations in the world but in reality this is done very little for a population that has seen its expendable income decline for well over four decades.
Our energy crisis has been self-inflicted by our politicians who are not working for us but The World Economic Forum. We also have artificially induced high house prices due to cheap easy credit and a tax system that penalises savers and entrepreneurs. Not to mention the fact that we are flooding our little country with refugees and economic migrants who are eating the cheese and butter from our bread.
The US makes Ukraïnians die and Europeans suffer and de-industrialize in their fight for the natural resources of Russia. The Netherlands are just used as a vasal state by US.
Indeed!
The only reason we have an energy crisis is not investing in nuclear energy ages ago and now trying to build up rather unreliable sustainable energy sources like solar and wind. They do work, but without a way to offload a surplus or a traditional energy source to boost undercurrent, they are not usuable at a large scale. Not to mention they are created using a ton of rare materials, which create their own pollution and in some cases serious human suffering, including child labor.
Especially windmills, which have a short lifetime of 15-20 years, are not created sustainably and their materials cannot be fully recycled. As long as we do not fix these issues, our 'sustainable' energy transistion is not only bound to fail, it is also going to cause more harm than do good. We have idiot bureaucrats running our country, they only look at spreadsheets and have no idea what works and what doesn't.
@@pinobluevogel6458 therefor....I do not understand why especially the 'green parties' realise these wind and solarparks. In natue for gods sake. Allready about 30 years ago farmers here in the middle of the province of Utrecht were invited to sell their land to the local government. Many plans since then passed the eyes of the people thre living. Nothing happened. Here in the Netherlands a housingcrisis exists as long as I live (75), the soil is here, bare (nou ja...grass) why not build? Now with the influx of 'fugitives'?...who need/demand/want to be housed as soon as possible.....
Why not build solar parks on corporate, industrial, shopping centra? Along highways, in rows above each other? Windmills on high apartmentbuildings? Or any high towering structures?
I remember the television-antenna's on rooftops! Terrible. Then the round flat antenna's on balconies. Every new invention brings its own garbage. Some of it disappears in time, but now?....
And yet the citizens dont experience anything of this wealth...
Edit: also the dutch government just collapsed lmao
You are so used to all this wealth that you don't see it. Maybe your personal situation isn't that great for our standards. That is on you. Please travel a bit across the world and you would understand it .
Boy travel to other countries and you’ll see our wealth.
Every. Single. Country. Has less wealth compared to us.
@@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536We should always fight against corporate greed
Wow, a really clear and intriguing video! Didn't expect it when seeing the thumbnail 😅 I will share it because I think it will benefit many people today to watch
You missed an important pillar of the Dutch success story: geopolitical stability.
We are one armed conflict away from utter ruin. Our country's size, shape and waterworks make it impossible to defend in modern warfare.
Which means absolutely nothing. Being in NATO secures the safety of all members. An act of war against The Netherlands will result in a declaration of war against NATO. Which no country on earth is capable to do.
thats why were into NATO, noone is gonna invade anytime soon
@@J-B44a full invasion isn’t the only option in modern warfare.
Everybody is gangster while invading the Netherlands until we flood the polders.
@@Intel-i7-9700k Yeah, that might've worked 200 years ago but that doesn't mean shit anymore.
Oh, there's water? No problem we'll dump a nuclear bomb. Half the country gone.
I think those food numbers are vastly distorded by their food import from rotterdam, the NL is indeed really good at mass agriculture, yet I don't believe they have such an enormous edge over the rest of the world in terms of agriculture, still props to them, everytime I get to visit the NL everything looks always super orderly and tidy.
Yes, Rotterdam is one of the biggest importer/exporter of banana's and avocados world wide
Uhhh no just simple example tomatos Spain or US etc. Do max. 6 kilo m2, Netherlands over 100 kilo.....
@@Jorg05111980No, it's not. Equador, Philippines, Costa Rica, Colombia and Guatemala are the biggest exporter of bananas. Dutch banana production is not even close to those countries.
@@elisqbThe Netherlands doesn't produce a single banana, but it's a transit place...which is also considered export. And it's in the top 10 worldwide as a result
i scape from argentina and migrated to the netherlands and this country is so advanced that i wast in shock
When my wife from Brasil visited me for the first time here in the Netherlands she said:"I went to another country, I arrived in another world".
What do you mean under advanced? Iam Dutch but dont see anything difference for example with France or Germany, Danmark, sweden, Norway....
@@manuellangius2896 i dont come from those countries so i dont know how they are but in comparation to argentina the netherlands is like 50 years in the future
@@elfrank333 Lol👍
What secret they where always rich always had power , its just gone under the radar , for the past 500 years .
The Dutch 17th century and all the change it brought is appropriated by the British through the English language, but the 18th century they were a bit lacklustre and decadent, in the 19th they were empoverished and had to rebuild, and after the 1940's all over again.
@@DenUitvreter it was WW II which made the Dutch an agricultural powerhouse, their was a food shortage and the Dutch decided to innovate to prevent it ever happening again.
@@autohmae Agriculture is not what made the Netherlands rich again. It's 1.5% of the GDP or something.
Not really gone under the radar when you look at the Dutch inventions the world is has and is enjoying!
It's just that the world has changed and are taking a lot of things for granted!
Look at what the invention of the music casette, cd, dvd, blue ray, WiFi, bluetooth, microscope, telescope, Eye-test, submarine, stock market, free trade, windmills etc etc have contributed to the world we live in today!
Without the Dutch we would be living a lot closer to the stone age (which wouldn't be necessarily a bad thing depending ones view)!
@@classesanytime That is what i mean , the Netherlands has and does provide tons of inovations technology and science to the world , but no one knows they are the source of it all.
The Netherlands is the second largest food exporter in the world. Not producer. Also, they are the second largest food exporter, counted in Euros, not calories or weight. This is mainly due to the high value products like flowerbulbs and meat. NL is a very small country so obviously there are other countries who produce and export alot more food than the Netherlands (although less expensive food like grain, potatoes, etc).
They can produce more food per acre than any country in the world, and that's a fact, one that truly matters in this world in which farm land is getting scarce. On top of that, they're doing it by using far less resources per acre than any other country, also that is a fact that truly matters to the world.
Outdoor farms will eventually disappear because of climate change, and food production will all be done indoors, above ground, or underground. In that context the immense experience of the Dutch with indoor farming will make a huge difference.
I've been living in the Netherlands for about 7 years, and it seems the average citizen is struggling.
The economy has challenges with a housing bubble (prices are rising dramaticaly every year), growing income inequality, and job insecurity.
The national debt is also a concern among population with other problems like demographic challenges (declining birth rate)
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Like all democracies The Netherlands is a bananas republic with politics treating the population like sh*t and being in bed with big bussiness.
Don’t forget the medical insurance, the government saves billions that way in my opinion.
You are right, this is a highly romanticised view of my country. The middle class is facing imminent financial ruin
Prijzen vallen echt wel mee vergeleken met andere landen, en de gemiddelde nederland heeft het echt niet zo zwaar hoor. Als expats weg blijven en vluchtelingen geweigerd worden zal dat ook al heel veel woningen schelen
We do not need more food but less poverty.
We need less Polenhotels for the cancer that is the agricultural industry, and house for native born Dutch people. Farmers and their big business masters are not our friends.
Well that is part of capitalism but also life is more expensive in general. Look around the world. Almost all countries have that issue.
Realistically we once were the wealthiest. We likely won't be again due to how we act.
We have to significantly change what we are doing or planning to do or we might lose it all.
With Mark Rutte gone perhaps we can turn the tide on kicking out farmers. Maybe there is a better solution? Thats something we need to find.
Yes, with Rutte gone things will of course get better... Neoliberalism (including VVD yes) and D66 EU policies is what keeps fucking us over. I understand it's easy to just look for one person to blame, but it's hardly the full picture. These days we are focusing more on discussing woke nonsense than making sure we keep making progress in technology. Destroying compitition to make us push each other to explore new heights and replace it by victim mentality and' everyone is a winner'.
I'd love to see a left leaning government and watch them fail. "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".
70 billion euros to battle climate change while we as a country could disappear from the face of the earth and it would help 0.5% to battle co2 emissions worldwide.
The battle is fought oversees in Asia, Africa and south America. That's where the real change is made. Though we won't help those countries because that will mean we have to pay fairly for our luxery needs. And since 'Jan Modaal' thinks he deserves to own a house, drive a big car and being able to go on vacation by plane at least ones a year and needs the best new thing every year, we won't change a damn thing.
Zal er aan liggen bij de volgende verkiezingen want over links denk ik niet dat Nederland veel vooruit zal gaan en over rechts hebben we op misschien ja21 na alleen mensen die dingen zeggen om zetels te winnen
@@robinkrimp6755at zal idd nooit gebeuren, vooruitgaan met een links kabinet. Ja mischien in de een hele korte periode. Maar het zou het land de afgrond insturen. Of rechts dan de betere weg is. Uhh nee dat denk ik ook niet. Er is gewoon niet echt een middenpartij die zegt verminderen van de immigratie, minder vol inzetten op het milieu maar wel stappen zet in het verminderen van de uitstoot zonder dat het beroepen/bedrijven kapot maakt. (hulp vanuit de regering bijvoorbeeld) Het vereenvoudigen van het belastingstelsel (oa toeslagen). Enz enz enz.
Wordt tijd voor een partij met een realistische kijk ipv one issue of onrealistische voorstellen.
15:42 Excuse me, but Eindhoven Metropolitan Region is home to more than 750 000 people. Just because ASML is based outside Eindhoven itself, doesn't mean it still isn't in a big citry region.
The municipality sizes of the Netherlands are smaller than in the USA which is was mislead you. Compare Disneyland, which technically is in Anaheim, but most of us just say near or even in Los Angeles - if you mean Los Angelos County. Likewise, ASML is near or even in Eindhoven - if you mean Eindhoven Metrpolitan Region. Not a small town at all.
vertical farming is great for scale and efficiency. unfortunately the quality of some products really cannot be replicated. Dutch tomatoes are water, same goes for strawberry. once this is solved, we can talk about it..
Taxes are way too high here in Holland. Alot of poverty as well
High taxes to support mass migration of refugees and economic migrants. We are paying for our own genocide.
taxes are the reason our roads aren't a bunch of patchwork, and the reason we have social benefits
@@AnymMusic Roads were built and maintained well before the introduction of taxes. Private roads exist today where users agree to pay an annual fee or on a pay-as-you-go system.
I like the idea of paying for what I actually use or wish to support--that way I get to decide exactly where my money is spent! I may not want my tax money used to buy weapons to fight foreign wars or to house and feed economic migrants.
I would much rather have the option of sponsoring a refugee family directly (by myself or with a group of likely minded people in my community) so that I can experience the pleasure of directly helping someone in my neighbourhood.
Taxation is theft because the money is taken without my consent under threat of violence. Just because a thief throws some money back at me does not make it right,
@@charlesponzi9608 You make me laugh
@@ruudvdwerf Good thing they haven't found a way to tax us every time we laugh! 🤣
Just wanna add something, our real world dominance is not technoligy or agraculture. It's the stroopwafel, and Giethoorn ofc.
In this case it would be returning super power if you think about it
Thanks to that current WEF infiltrated minority government don't hold your breath waiting for that return.
The Netherlands had never in his history so many homeless.
The amount of homeless people right now just doubles every few years, it's sad
Beste opmerking tot nu toe bij deze video, Rutte heeft alles kapotgemaakt.
As being a Dutch citizen I myself am even baffled by all of this done in my tiny country. The machines that ASML makes are beyond any normal persons understanding, and it's quite dazzling that both the big countries like the United States and China are practically fighting for this technology. As being a NATO member, The Netherlands is more inclined to working together with the United States, our long term ally and liberator from WW2. Thank you United States, even till this day. Aside from the food industry, which is also insane to get a grasp how 'we' even do this, in this video there are even more things not even spoken about. For example, The Netherlands also has a leading role in water management.
All those artificial islands at Dubai, the palm islands and 'the world islands' are also designed and created by Dutch companies. In recent events the Suez Canal was blocked by a container ship, and guess which company pulled it off to get free again? A Dutch company. More several years ago, it was a Dutch company that raised the Russian nuclear submarine called the "Kursk" after a horrible accident. After hurricane Katrina nearly wiped out New Orleans in 2005 and also after a big storm flooded big parts of New York, it were Dutch companies the Americans called in for how to deal with these water problems. And of course there are the amount of flowers (mainly tulips) that are exported that also is mind boggling.
I also can tell since the invasion of Russia in Ukraine the solar farms for both consumers and in big government decided setups have been exploded like crazy. There were days that so much energy was produced by all the solar panels and wind-turbines that it even creates a surplus. I think that is a very promising act, and makes this country less dependent on importing energy, although it still import LNG to keep a buffer anyway for if winters become harsh. The only plus side of global warming for this country is, is that winter is not that harsh anymore.
On the other hand, as being a Dutch citizen I am slightly worried about sea level rising, but I hope our engineers can keep our country dry and safe from the rising oceans. They probably come up with an idea to create a water reservoir somewhere in the world where hardly any people live, so the ocean levels can drop again. The same we also apply here to the rivers. We give space to rivers, so they can overflow if needed. Unlike for example in the United States where the Mississippi river has been walled off on bother side with relative weak levee's, with all consequences.
I ain't gonna read this. It's just one big block of text without any blank lines. It's unreadable.
@@telebubba5527it is a good read though. And I think CZcams’s commenting system is to blame, it’s not a rich text editor.
World war2: Why only mention US? What about Canada and Russia??
Global warming,...?? BS
Sea level rising...?? BS
Even before Russia started it's "military operation" in Ukraine this "surplus" of energy creation already happened!
@@JanneWolterbeek You can simply press enter to space it out.
@@telebubba5527 Hij zou wat meer papier moeten gebruiken en z,n tekst kunnen verdelen in alinea's of zo.Maar ja,ons ben zuinig.
About the NOx-compounds that are emitted: the vast majority of NOx comes from (heavy) industry and transport. Ammonia is the vast majority of Nitrogen-emmisions from agriculture, especially livestock. Both are a problem, and farmers feel that they're being scapegoated. Not entirely wrong, but that's partially because they started yelling from the moment it was decided that emissions needed to be reduced in a faster pace (even though the sector's lobbying is part of the reason why reduction hasn't been higher in de recent years). Because of that, the focus (at least in media) is on the farmers, making the new regulations for (heavy) industry and transport. And part of the problem is that many citizens (not only farmers) feel entitled to being subsidized for the changes that are needed, denying the risk that having any business means you can't get away from. Though many don't have many funds, since the farmer's are pressured to sell at the lowest amount of margins, so making the necessary changes in the way they're farming, is not easy for many.
It won't be dependent on the Netherlands to reduce its emissions, it'll be dependent on the poorest of the poor to decide how the food is distributed sadly, and the climate crisis will be decided over there. We all need food
@@dragoneyr1632 we all need food, but we dont all need meat
Part of the problem is that we have an insane interpretation of European rules causing Dutch limits for nitrogen deposition up to 100 to 1000 times lower than in Germany or Denmark. Limits are so extreme that even extinguishing all farmers would still leave 96% of the country above limits. Hopefully we get a new government next year with more sense of reality. Otherwise agriculture will be completely outgummed in the next decade.
As for the mix up between NOx and NH3 you are right; agriculture does not account for NOx but does indeed for NH3. NOx is caused by traffic, industry, harbors and airports. Documentary makes a stupid mistake here.
Straks komt Timmermans terug naar Nederland. Dan wordt het helemaal een gekkenhuis. Oh nee, huizen moet je bouwen en dat kan niet meer. Blijft de gek over. De burger het haasje, voedselbank explosie.
Nitrogen is just a stick to disown the farmers and steal their land .... It is the WEF, WHO, BIS, NWO who do everything to enforce a world government. Look at what happens in Canada.
We are actually the 2nd biggest agriculture exporter in the world. Not the biggest food exporter. It's because of flowers we produce. The tulp is probably the most famous one. We do produce the most food per square meter.
We're the 6th food exporter in the world. Which is still impressive considering the size of my country.
Yet the poor, are getting more poor. And they are trying to severely reduce the food production. Very interesting how the port images have mountains in the back ground :D
This is literally almost everywhere around the world haha
Have you ever stepped foot out of the country? Poverty is everywhere yet we still have very low rates.
What the Netherlands mainly does is import low value agricultural products, and use it to feed cattle or process it in another way to turn it into a high value agricultural product which we then export. Saying we feed millions is a bit of a misnomer. It's more that we ensure the rich get their steak.
We are so rich we can't even leave our parents house because the housing market is too expensive. Even with 50k on the bank. Let that sink in, folks.
On a side note, renting waiting lists sun up to almost 10 years. In the meanwhile, refugees get free housing. Let that also sink in.
The Netherlands are a great country to live in - they are incredibly beautiful and ultra clean, I just love my country. The Hague is incredibly beautiful. But don't even try to purchase real estate nowadays... even a small appartment is almost impossible to afford. There is a gigantic lack of residential space. Due to this situation, many young Dutch people are forced to keep living with their parents - university fees are also relatively high compared to european standards. Furthermore is the cost of living excessive here. The gas price exceeded 2 euros a liter euro 95 (that is unleaded) yesterday (That would be almost 8 dollars a gallon). You buy only basic groceries at the supermarket and the bill will exceed €50 way faster than you think. However, I love this country 🇳🇱 Greetings from The Hague
Clean? You might wanna check out the ESA air pollution satellite maps. Not to mention companies like Chemours.
it is because we pay such absurd amout of tax money 🤣🤣🤣
aaaand, how do you think we can AFFORD to pay such high taxes?
Exactly
@@berendharmsen because we are hard working, prudent and overall financially relatively wise people!
@@Bjornlovesjazz Which is why we understand taxing is needed
@@Bjornlovesjazzso is the rest of the world, yet other countries lack the services we have.
@@miles5600 because they are not yet developed it's not EU problem, they barely exist after WW2
We are a food superpower yet the prices for food are absolutely insane right now here, and all the food we export is usually way cheaper in other countries like Belgium/Germany..
Prices for everything are insane in this country
as a dutch person, don't forget we were smart enough to sit on Europe's largest gas field!
- these greenhouses are cool and all but they mostly ride the wave of cheap gas
- as for cows and chickens, we did well because we got an exemption from EU law's that prohibit us from poisoning our environment with ammonia and nitrous oxides
Jeej NL
This 'nitrogen oxide problem' has never been verified and not enough research has been done to draw a conclusion...
We don't know for sure until actual measurements are done.
The only evidence of a nitrogen problem is that a model made a mathematically based guess how much nitrogen is being deposited in different parts of the country. It's not accurate to the mol.
Measurements are.
No measurements = no evidence
Ps: you can observe plants to determine whether there is too much nitrogen in the environment.
The leaf's edges start to burn up.
The downside of all this efficient food production is that the poison is killing all the insects needed for pollination, the soil is becoming less and less furtile after each season of mono-culture crops. Not to mention the large amounts of ammonia that are holding our country hostage, limiting industrial growth, housing and infrastructure projects and causing wide-spread division between people.
And all this for a fraction of our GNP. I’m impressed with what we can do, but I fear it’s not sustainable for much longer.
It's not agriculture that holds us hostage, it's the stupid implementation of nitrogen rules that holds us hostage.
1. Those rules are 100 to 1000 times as strict compared with the rest of Europe.
2. If we would kill all farmers still 96% of our area does not not apply to those insane rulings.
So tell me, who is holding us hostage?
Yes, food is produced in a high technical way in NLs but it’s not the 2nd biggest foor producer in mass but in value … and it’s mainly because of trade and distribution. Anyhow the food tech sector in NLs needs more nutrients from other countries like fertilizer and for instance soy for fodder than it produces. This is were the pain come in, the nutrients (like nitrogen) in dung from cows, pigs and chickens are wasting the soil and air… it is NOT sustainable for any country, we need the natural cycle to keep the world livable.
Nitrogen is a scam to push electric cars heatpomps etc
that is a big problem for the country, its sustainability, therefore, I think the future is exactly the opposite as said on this video, maybe a few Dutch people and companies are becoming rich, but the country won't
There is no nitrogen problem in my beautiful country The Netherlands. Stop spreading misinformation
@@demoe5676please enlighten us with your clear view on the matter and the knowledge you have.
Most people like you refuse to answer with factual arguments. They just keep denying the nitrogen issue.
@camielkotte okay since you started assuming and put me in your made-up category of certain groups of people. How about this: there is no point arguing with people who think it is necessary to give billions of Euros to corrupt communists and their green company's to prevent a 0.00036 degrees Celsius increase of temperature. You must be an absolute jackass if you believe that if Jack Average is benefitting of giving his hard earned money to semi government company's that will force farmers to pack in and harmful windmills will be placed instead.
It's all interlinked. A land grab like, for instance, we've seen in Zimbabwe
Amsterdam is the biggest tourist park in the world. Everything there, coffee shops, red light district, and all other attractions are made to attract millions of people and billions of EUR. In places without tourists, there are almost no coffee shops. You will not find many Dutch people in coffee shops, the vast majority are tourists.
Food production doesn't make the country powerful it just makes a few corporations rich because the average salary in the NL is around 2000 EUR, and fuel is the most expensive in Europe (2 eur/liter compared to 1,76 in Germany, I personally checked last week). Food is much more expensive in the NL than in Germany for example. Roads are of the same quality, etc.
The Netherlands is the world's biggest tax evasion haven, the famous Double Irish-Dutch sandwich scheme brings millions to corporations. But ordinary people don't profit from this. Large companies make deals with the government to push more "expenses" for people by using naive narratives and propaganda. Hopefully, this ends with the next elections and the people of the Netherlands (like farmers) become the focus of the government again.
Couldn't agree more, it's sad to see what's happened here these last 20 years, middle class is struggling. I was born in a different country than what it is now. The mindset has become very socialist and I don't understand how citizens go along with the narrative.
I'm pretty sure we don't use salt water for crops, so being under sea level doesn't help with water. Instead salt water pollutes ground water by mixing in salt.
(Verzilting)
We are half way.... 8 or 9 years ago scientists were able to grow patatoes in semi- salted ground due to brackish (brak) water. Nowadays farmers in Zeeland en Friesland are growing this type of patatoe. They seems to taste nicely without using salt!
And then to think that this rich country that produces so much food, still needs food banks to feed the poor within its own boundaries.
Juist, of is dit normaal ? Zeker niet !!
Since it's on the CZcams it's not a secret anymore 😢 Good Job!
The people in it are not ritch
That counts for most countries, countries are rich but not persay the people living in it.
Well minimum wage is one of the highest in the world in the netherlands it really puts a country like the US to shame
@@henkschrader4513 yes but in the Netherlands everything is much more expensive we are with 17 million people more then 5 are get there food by foodbanks because they can not pay it anymore and the petrol is in us €0,91a litre in the Netherlands €2,05 a liter ( gallon us $ 3.594 Netherlands $ 7.370 a gallon in we pay 42 a 50 %tax money (that income) health insurance is around €250 a month you need to take it but has nothing to do with health (medicine dont cure) then every year you pay €350 extra for health insurance en zo on zo on more than 1/3 is life in poor conditions thx government
This is awesome except for one possible thing that may have an effect on the electrical properties of the foods grown in these vertical structures and that’s grounding. Dr. Sebi when he was alive would have the knowledge on this subject, I just have curiosity on how it will play out in the long term with the fundamentals of human nourishment
Netherlands: good with Football
Also Netherlands: No other country has been in a World Cup final so many times without ever winning the tournament.
We truly loved our time exploring the Netherlands, would be my dream to be able to live there. Amazing people, the rest of the world should have learned from them.
Well it is not such a great place anymore,we have nice people,exept in the Goverment.😬
Want to trade🤷🏻
@@Sietskefeitsma The most common thing you'll hear the Dutch say, and they've been saying this for the past 30 years... yet... for the past 30 years they beat most other countries every single time in life quality. Relatively speaking, it's definitely in the top ten best countries to live, depending on what you're looking for.
@@9Gorgon6 i am saying it for the past 4 years,you are probebly not living in Holland,but maybe you should cheque out items like Dutch farmers being bullied away,Earthquakes from drilling gas in Groningen,or translate an article about " toeslagenaffaire",kids being dragged from their parents,"voedselbank" or girls being harassed by " refugees" in " ter Apel." They only show you the " Good stuff ".bet you think we all still walk on wooden shoes to.Keeping up appeareances.🤔😬
no sry we are full, our own generation needs housing first.
Fact check #2:
This video states the government has agreed to cut Nitrogen emissions by 50% by 2030, but the year that is actually enshrined in legislature is 2035. There are however a number of left-wing parties that are very actively pushing for 2030 instead of 2035, one of which was part of the (recently collapsed) government coalition for at least six years.
Frankly it is not a bad idea on surface, since it would give ample time to adjust as needed.
Not the best way to do it though, with how the farmers are being treated. Proud that people are at least supporting the farmers. Curious how will BBB do in the upcoming elections.
They also treat their people good unlike other countries. GOD BLESS THE NEDERLANDS
There are 1 million people living below the poverty line in Holland. People have difficulty paying their energy bills. So that's not too bad considering how rich the Netherlands is.
Amazing narration and explanation about the Netherlands. The fact about the food industry and chip industry was eye opening. The role of technological advancements in geopolitics is also a major factor for many countries encouraging their institutes and educational institutions to have the upper hand.
How can the Netherlands keep their leading role in food production by pushing farmers out with financial bribes?
We do indeed have to change different food products
@@IRiViI Getting rid of our Dutch farmers and using the land to expand cities due to mass migration is not the solution to our environmental problems. I don't want my country to become one large city.
@@charlesponzi9608 You don't have to get rid of the farmers If you change the land use to another type of food that has less nh3 production. Trying to save biodiversity is a good thing. It does indeed suck that we have to lose a port of our great cow farms. I think that the Dutch are one of the best in cow farmers. The dutch are so good at it that we have too many cows to close together, resulting in high nh3 concentrations as shown by satellite data. It would, of course, be amazing if we have other methods of reducing nh3. But they sadly lack scientific backing... would have been great if the government invested more time and money into this problem 15 years ago such that we could have avoided this mess.
@@IRiViI farms dont even produce that mucht nh3
@marijnnn4992 According to measurements, it seems that the urine of cows is for 54% responsible for nh3 of the farming sector. And the farming sector is 86% responsible for mh3. So that seems like quite a lot to me. Of course, it would be great if there is already a proven way to reduce the production of nh3 by urine. I blame the government for acting waaay to late. They should have invested money in research before this became such a huge problem.
Source of values: cbs
Note: it is very impressive that dutch cow farmers did reduce it already so much compared to a few decades ago.
Nothing sudden about it, the Netherlands been rich and powerfull since like forever.
Solid...if the American transcript would have been verified. 5.57: the historically highly significant name of Duijvestijn is pronounced as Dui-Ve-St-Ei-N. The Do-Invest-In came out of nowhere / is the worst joke someone could come up with.
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That canned 🧀 from the Netherlands was awesome!
we have canned Cheese? what Canned cheese never heard of it.
please also make a video about our issues. Housing crisis, Completely full electricity grid, failing politics and paying extra for every f*cking plastic thing that you buy lol
Same thing is going on in other countries.
Cool fact: the netherlands actually also has one of the smallest borders with france, its a island called Sint Maarten 🇸🇽 in mid america, pretty cool right?
It's not in MidAmerica, whatever that means, but rather in the Caribbean Sea.
It's remarkable that the Dutch are the second largest food exporting country, however import of food is huge as well. Some companies process imported food and export these as higher valued products. For instance when you look at coffee beans and cacao beans. Holland is one of the largest exporter of these products while producing nothing at all.
There is a difference between luxury products and food we need to survive.
Well.... It would be nice if normal people could share in the wealth
We do that a lot
Funny thing is right now our covernment is trying to buy out farmers (that hold cows, pigs, chickens, etc.) because its gotten to big and polution of it is not good for the land. Huge up rise against it but we have to lower this type of type of polution by law.
I fear that our government wants the farmer's land so they can build more ugly apartments. Turning our country into one large city is surely not good for the environment.
And our government is correct in this conclusion. Instead of livestock we could be the powerhouse of producing fruit, vegetables, potatoes and flowers.
@@marcelrenes2435 stop dreaming this has any positive effect on climate change. You don't think the exact same meat will be produced somewhere else but then with even worse impact? Of course it will happen. We just ship it overseas and then it has to travel even more.
Not correct. First, big part of lower Holland is only suitable for grass to grow. Second, your proposed crops all are very sensitive and will need chemicals to grow them properly. You fix one problem and cause next. Third, livestock not only eats soy but aside from home grown grass and corn they transform waste from the the food industry into edible high protein food. Vegetable oils and juices leave vast amounts of waste but also think about sugar and beer industry.
@@marcelrenes2435and why would we do that? Our income heavily relies on export.
this guy is wrong: Rotterdam is the BIGGEST port of the WORLD.
im really proud of what my country has achieved in only 100 years or something
This video misses nearly all the marks. I thought it would be just about ASML, but only the latter part touches on the subject. However, the part about food is really off. The dutch government is not supporting healthy and sustainable food production, it is actively making it harder for farmers. The nitrogen emissions from healthy farming are not actively hurting the environment as a whole, it actually improves almost all plant growth. The only (supposed) issues with it are with (self)designated 'Natura 2000' protected nature reserves and then only because the areas are not managed well by NGO's. The government decided to raise their emission standards themselves, to unatainably high numbers, which are incomparable to countries near to it like Germany or Denmark.
On the other hand, very little is done about the more dangerous nitrous oxide emissions emitted from heavy industry, schiphol airport and the incredible amounts of traffic on our congested roads. Those emissons are actually pollutant and do not break down as easily in nature as the ones produced by regular agriculture.
The (forced) reduction in emissions is also affecting animal welfare, especially for pig farming. Their stalls have to be fitted by scrubbers to pull out as much of the nitrogen as possible. Not only are they incredibly expensive, but this also forces farmers to keep a lot of pigs in very small stalls and keep their space to a minumum. While having the pigs outside in a large open space (if it was allowed) would not only increase the wellfare of the pigs dramatically, it would also decrease the risk of disease and increase the quality of the meat.
I haven't even touched on the subject of 'alternative food sources' like lab grown meat, insects or even the (more established) vertical farming with UV lighting. It sounds incredible and it seems like a solution, but most of the nutrients in our plants comes from the soil and the energy of the sun, or in case of animals: from the plants they eat that got those nutrients from there. It is not yet proven the food produced from these alternative sources has all the nutrients needed, or that it is even healthy. As long as we don't have at least 50-100 years of humans eating these foods (voluntarily) to see and compare their effect on the human body, we should not so easily discard our tried and trusted agricultural sector.
We already made huge mistakes with genetically modified crops and heavy roundup use that have serious heatlh issues for humans, not to mention making the soil unusable for food production and toxic for an untold number of years. It is important to learn from those mistakes and be a little modest in our ability to try and control and steer nature, at the cost of the health of our planet and ourselves.
Second biggest food producer in the world?
Are you sure?
lol yeah such misinformation. Second biggest agricultural exporter is what they meant. India is the actual second biggest food producer in the world. But hey, they make their videos look like RealLifeLore so they don't need to be accurate anymore, here we all are engaging and making them money.
@@atropatene3596I already thought this cannot be true, bad beginning
Export$/person?
@@steveunderhill5935 No, it's actually total export value.
The biggest food exporter value wise is the US followed by The Netherlands. That’s because they export not quantity (bulk) but specially grown products in high tech greenhouses like peppers and paprika’s etc. With a relatively high value compared to grain or corn.
Thanks to EU’s Dutch Frans Timmermans The Netherlands is about to be the cause of mass starvation due to policies to destroy farming
Oh dear, stock up on canned foods!
Jij heb gelijk.
i dont know whos gonna be rich in the netherlands .. being dutch myself.. but its not the people.. likely the politicians and elite yes .. as we suffer ....
The country is rich. Don't take it personal. Our country can do things that many other countries can only dream of.
@@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536 You mean things like, spending un insane amount of euro's for 0.000036 percent reduction on carbon emission?
Foodbanks can't handle it. Even people who work have to go there. It's not the people who became richer.
And you don’t think the rest the world has this problem?
Vertical farming and the like is also extremely important for the future, as weather patterns change fast and gets more extreme because of climate change we might not be able to grow outside because crop would be destroyed.
Where I live, every few years a huge hurricane wipes out all crops and makes farmers bankrupt. This would help with that and also with the limited space.
We don't really have that problem in the Netherlands. The biggest danger to our food production comes from our own climate change paranoid political parties and the European union. They are destroying our farms, not climate change. They are the ones to blame when people start to die from starvation world wide. They are doing everything in their power to destroy our farmers.
What a crap if we had an even softer climate we would be able to cultivate the land during winter.
More climate change please!
Climate change is part of the fear and guilt porn industry. Religion has been replaced with Science.
@@harrygroen69 "Climate change" is just the ozone getting constantly attacked by all these factories polluting and attacking the ozone layer. The ozone layer is always repairing, but it's not enough to counter the rate of destruction. Proof is in Covid 19 shutting down the factories and the Ozone layer finally able to fully heal and world wide temperatures dropping and climate going back to how it was before all these mega factories were polluting the atmosphere.
Although I greatly admire Netherlands' technological advancement as well as their good governance, the food from Netherlands I tried is tasteless, more specifically - dutch grown tomatoes. Luckily, my country has no food issues so I as long as I got right to choose, I would choose the food that tastes better and has its authentic taste.
I completely agree. I am Dutch, but old enough to remember what tomatoes used to taste like in the Netherlands before they tasted like water. I have been living in Austria very close to the Italian border for the past 12 years and every time I visit family in the Netherlands I very clearly taste the difference. Tomatoes and cucumbers really taste like water compared to here.
The Italians import loads of Dutch tomatoes 😂
Pretty much the only thing that is infamously tasteless is the the tomatoes. Such a weird generalisation.
@@jannetteberends8730 That's why I grow my own.
@@ncoppens I don’t like tomatoes 😃
But I grow every year little yellow ones that grow everywhere, because my cat liked them.
Yet millions of households are living just above or below the poverty line. Food banks are being overwelmed. Young people cannot buy or find housing and are forced to live with their parents until their thirties. The government started it's war on farmers and is now buying out farmers / farmland. Dutch farmers are the best in the world in terms of efficiency, sustainability and animal rights, but yet the government wants to get rit of them. Our prosperity is collapsing at high speed due to climate / green policies. Also mass immigration is disrupting our social cohesion and is breaking down the welfare state. I think this is not just applicable to the Netherlands but is a trend in Europe / The US.
If it's so rich how come it's only 17th in the Worlds GDP rankings ? Spain , Mexico and Australia has a bigger economy . However I do agree it does perform very well for the physical size of the country .
It's not, in the last 20 years we've gone from decent living standards to a struggling middle class. Also the mindset has become very socialist which is why we now support a war in Ukraine that can not be won and is only making the rich richer. It pisses me off everytime someone mentions The Netherlands with the word Progressive. It's not progressive at all, it's going backwards like most of the world and like most of the world people are living in the past. It's time to wake up, there's a global system of control that's causing this.
I think it might be GDP/person. Look it up if you have access to Google
Nice video, but you forget to mention that the Netherlands are the greatest in breeding vegetables, making new restistant varieties for all over the world! Without good seeds, no food over the world!
Breeding vegetables 😅? Vegetables are not cattle or poultry, you realised that right?
@@karinneeskensif you’re genetically modifying crops, it’s practically breeding.
I life in the Netherlands and I think it sucks because the government takes a lot of money from us and I have to move because outsiders need to have a home. I can't find another house or apartment because everything is full and I have to move but i cant because of this. The Netherlands is making it so terrible for its own people, and outsiders are being prioritized.
I agree that the housing crisis is absolutely abysmal at the moment
Living in the Netherlands but shopping and getting gas from Germany and Belgium cuz they are three times cheaper. This is the way. Not everything is perfect in the Netherlands.
You can't force electric cars when gas is cheap. 🤷🏻♂️
As a dutchperson; we're not as powerful as this video makes it seem, we are scolded on a weekly basis by the EU on our measures against corruption not being solid, climate change, and more. Our government has fallen apart 2 times in 5 years, the divide between the rich and poor is large, the government has left childrens healthcare in the dust leading to huge rates of depression / psychological issues unsolved in the youth. And no single student will be able to buy a house anytime soon without being born into rich social circles due to the housing crisis.
ASML is a unique company
Just, the chips you eat isn't a product of agri-food... so what the hepplewhite are you talking about?
@@Paul_C 13:00
ASML is a puppet company.
@@Paul_C you dont know what ASML is?
Our government is really working very hard to make sure that we won't be the largest food producing country any longer. They are also very committed to making the Netherlands one of the poorest countries in the world, giving shelter to more immigrants than we cope with. By 2030 housing will be unaffordable for Dutch people. But the great news is that the Netherlands will fight climate change and CO2-emmisions all on their own.
Remember it's not the industry that's polluting our environment, it's Jan en Marie having a barbecue once per year and burning wood, because we aren't allowed to use natural gas anymore.
Good. We need housing. Not more Polenhotels for famers.
Hey, our government will reduce global warming with 0.000036° for € 40 billion only. Great job!
We do need houses for people who come to work here and thus add value for our country. That includes Polish people picking tomatoes or working in industry and distribution centers so you receive your weekly online order. We do not need houses for people who cannot or don't want to work.
and yet we dont have food in the shelves at supermarkets and have a staggeringly high poverty rate
Proud Dutchman 🇳🇱 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
It’s not al fine tho. There a high home shortage going on for a few years. I’m 20 years old and have a hard time finding a affordable house.
This video desperately needs an update. The Dutch government has been pursuing policies to actively destroy the country's food production by making it impossible for farmers to stay in business. Even offering them tax money to give up their business forever. Small and medium enterprises and citizens also have increasingly hard times because the past few governments have been increasing the net taxation rate to (almost) world record levels while at the same time paying the highest net contribution per citizen to the ever increasing EU to which the country has lost its sovereignity. And that is not all that’s going wrong here due to ill government. So although the Netherlands is still a very rich and well organised country by comparison, chances for the Netherlands to become more powerfull are slipping away by the day.
This is very well made! A shame that not a lot of people have seen it. Great work
It is full of lies !!! It is Globalist Propaganda !!! this vid sucks
It is more likely history. The WEF is stepping in. We are not shining.
It's literally AI generated bro
its a PR product paid for by the Dutch animal food importers.
17 million people in The Netherlands, correct. But the real rich and powerful people are just a few. For example: we pay €1,20 for a Dutch cucumber. In an Italian supermarket they sell Dutch cucumbers for €0,23. How??? The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. Almost 1 million people (5.7%) live below poverty line and it's getting worse every year. I live close to the Belgian border so I buy my groceries in Belgium because it's cheaper. The Netherlands is going down hill... fast.
Reducing NO emissions is not that big a deal if your production is absolutely massive. It means you need to produce way less NO elsewhere.
Merk d'r weinig van.
We are losing land to houses every year because of net migration. In this way we lose a lot of farmland.
Your forgot to say, that this was no problem when farmers could flip there land from 'farmland' to 'building land' at the cost of a shed and sell it to projectmanagers for 5 to 10 times the worth. It's a problem now when you ONLY get 120% of the worth.
False statement that is the whole premise of the video: The Netherlands is NOT the world's second-largest food producer.
So, did nobody proofread the subtitles, or what's going on there?