Agriculture
Filter by year:- Area of glasshouses increases in Brabant, Limburg and Flevoland
- Dairy goats more popular
- Number of agricultural holdings diminishing
- Fewer pigs on small-scale farms
- Agricultural land keeps getting more expen-sive
- Diversification: panacea for smallholders?
- Potato harvest down substantially
- Cereals for a change
- Less land for potatoes
- Widening gap between small and large farms
- Organic farming growing against the grain
- Organic farming on the increase
- Use of pesticides down substantially
- Farmers cut nitrogen emissions
- Farm land prices up
- One quarter of farmers' wives are also full business partners
- Large dairy farms grow more slowly
- Half of Dutch farms are small scale enterprises
- More onions
- Shellfish catches down
- Record pear crop in 2000
- Over 18 million even-toed ungulates on Dutch farms
- More plant cultivation by fewer businesses
- Farmland prices doubled in the space of five years
- Cattle and pigs dwindling in number
- Intensive livestock farmers grow more cereals
- Less diversity in apples and pears