You will be one of the best informed tourists ever to visit The Netherlands my friend :)

He starts the story in 1970, but really he should have started it in 1944 as there was widespread hunger in the Netherlands because of WW2. All Dutch agricultural policy since has to be seen in the light of "never again", just as the water management got a boost after the flood disaster in 1953, we said "never again". And if the Dutch collectively say "never again" they will make a sustained, multi generational collective effort to make it so. I think that stubborness (remember we also had the longest war of independence, ever) is both a trait, but also a hindrance.

I am a farmers of fruit in the Netherlands. It is hard working wor the needs of the people. But when you love it you never gonna stop.

David Attenborough mentions the Dutch doing a great job saving the planet with foodtech in the documentary 'Our Planet'. Made me so proud.

One of the reasons why the focus on agriculture stayed was the famine of 1944 when the allies occupied the South of the country and the Germans the North leading to disruption of logistics. This made food autarchy a popular political idea.

I went on a high school trip to the Flower-trade in Aalsmeer . I felt like I was inside a computer system or a machine..everything went so smooth,fast and very well planned. I think i've seen about a million flowers that day. Imagine what kind of economic powerhouse The Netherlands would be like if it had the size of The U.S. or Russia.

The most beautiful way to see the greenhouses is to go by train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam in the dark. Then you see the amazing lit up greenhouses out of the window!

two notable things about the Dutch agriculture sector 1. Around 20-25% of the exports are from flowers. Since exports numbers are measured in money, and flowers are relatively expensive, the Dutch agriculture sector is actually a little bit weaker than the data would suggest on first glance 2. There's currently a large political discussion going on about farming in the Netherlands. Basically we have some nature areas that are only allowed have a certain amount of nitrogen added to them every year to avoid negatively influencing the ecological balance. Recently a high court ruled that the government has to put measures in place to reach the European targets they signed up to. Traffic and industry release NO2, but a large part of the nitrogen emissions are in the form of NH3, which mainly comes from raising animals. Some politicians have called for measures such as a forced buy-out of farmers near nature areas, or plans to halve to amount of livestock raised in the country. Farmers, who have been trying to keep up with the increasingly strict environmental requirements, are obviously not too happy (understatement) over these proposals. Especially because many farms have been owned by the same family for generations. Many farmers simply cannot imagine what life would be without their traditional way of life

Wow, as a Dutchman i am aware of the agricultural technology but being this size of a lead nation in the world. I'm stunned. o.O

United States is about 237 times bigger than Netherlands. So think about the production we Dutch could get out of the US and agriculture is only one part where we can make a difference.

It's very nice to see an American guy be this open and mind blown about us Dutchies, just know that most Dutchies look up to America, I even went on a trip to America that lasted 10 weeks.

Really proud to be a Horticulture student. The innovation is just so good. Especially the enviromental parts of it. We try to use as much organic fertilizers and use biological pest control instead of deadly chemicals. I think it's weird they gave so much credits to the university tho, of course they did A LOT, but the first ever greenhouses were invented back in 1850 in "gemeente Westland". And over here is were it all begun.

I love how you portrait my country! I live in Maastricht, one of the many attractions here! Love your love for my country!

Let's not forget the contribution of tha Wageningen university to the tourism industry in Amsterdam, it's those students in their spare time in the 70's, 80's who made Nederwiet (Netherweed) legendary powerfull. (I've suggested several video's through the form and they are all not about Amsterdam, even the rather funny coffeeshop one is about Utrecht). I might add a few things this foreign videomaker missed. There was a famine in 1945 in the last year of the war and government was so scared of not being able to feed the population ever again that it encouraged people to migrate to Canada, the USA and Australia in the 50's. Actually agricultural technology was imported from the USA back then. Another thing is is that's an egalitarian well connected country. There are little barriers to break for scientist or student to cooperate with an ordinary farmer. The for example foreign student wouldn't have to travel far and they can communicate in English. Young farmers are schooled thoroughly and farming in the Netherlands is a high skilled job, but are also encouraged to do a foreign internship. There is not the typical social 'distance' one might expect elsewhere. Dutch agriculture might have been backward in the 40's, the Netherlands has a long history of plant breeding going back beyond the tulips and the orange carrots. It has always had a good system of both protecting breeders rights and opportunity to use other's breeds.

no farmers no food! Now about technology: When a farmer knows when to harvest potatoes..not by AI, but by just knowing when you see them by moving them up , so....tech is fine, but wisdom is more. Intuitive knowledge is still the most important thing. Not all that glitters is gold.

I always compare countries to a classroom of kids. The smallest kid in the class always has to jump a lot higher to be seen than the tallest kid who just by size has immediate power. It's the same with countries. Why are the US the most powerful, just because of it's size. It will be invited to every important meeting on a global scale. Why would the Dutch be invited? Just a tiny country. If we want to be seen we have to jump very high in many different ways. And we do so without complimenting ourselves about everything we do. Americans are always saying how great the US are but is this really the case? I think this attitude brings laziness with a lot of damaging consequences as a result. The Dutch will keep on improving but they will never express what they accomplished themselves.

Hi Paul, glad you liked it! Don't just copy paste the greenhouses everywhere... Mind the weather, they can't handle hailstorms very well... The essence of the Netherlands being 2nd largest after USA: Compare the size duhhh! But you got it right! You know David's story with Goliath? Goliath used brute size, David was the smarter, and used some tech...

2 fields of technologie that the dutch are simply the best. Argoculture and water managment

@8:45 o....thats because we have german work ethic and organisation skill but then enjoy more of a seabreeze and thus are a bit more stoic and less flammable ;)

awnsering the question on 'How can a small country be doing so well overall?' (@8:50). i heard soeone say once; "A country next to the sea is never a small country".

We should be careful on money disposal if you are not spending to earn or get back money,then stop spending...

Tractorspotter “One year on a tulip farm” something else to be proud of 🌷🌷 as this one.

your cannabis industry uses all the dutch growing tech :P

I liked the way the guy said; University of Wageningen.. had to go back and listen again what he meant 🤣

Dutch education is very much geared towards trade with other countries. We learn languages and at Uni all the books were in English so good luck if that wasn't your strong suit. You'd be studying with a dictionary next to you. When you have to read hundreds of pages for the next class. It's great for international students who can then bring that knowledge back home. All they need to know is english.

It is my believe that at 9:40 you spoke true words! If you think you're the greatest, why would you look around and learn from other places?

Hey...They "produced" Floor Jansen. A country that can achieve that, can rule the world. (in my book) Much Love 💙💛💙

There is in my mind only one reason why this part of the world, West Europe is doing so well. Quality comes first, and produce it against lower cost is second.

With led light the Dutch paved the way to grow crops in space. It's a huge accomplishment. It could save humans from extinction.

I so agree with you, .Looks like they only know Amsterdam.

Really like ur reactions to dutch videos. Might just be biased because im dutch and i think our nation is generely great. I have suggestion for a video but it might be a bit of a long one. The video is made by money and macro and is called "dutch vs usa: economic model: the complete middle class". Its about living as a middle class person in the Netherlands vs the usa.

I saw some sheap, tomatoes and other plants but they forget to mention the cattle. Numbers 2020: 12 million pigs, 102 million chickens, 3,8 million cows, est. 425.000 horses, 890.000 sheap and 633.000 goats. And all those animals ment to be milked and eaten and have to be fed. They also forgot to mention the herrings and other fish.

One example of these agricultural innovations is shown in the episode about the Netherlands from the docuseries "Europe from above" by National Geographic. They show/tell the story of two greenhouse farming brothers who invented a way of farming lettuce using LED and other technologies to improve their yield sixfold.

The Dutch are also water management experts, Dutch engineers were invited to help in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.

Can u imagine if the Dutch never traded new York for Suriname, I think the city of New York (new amsterdam) would be such a crazy city tbh

Great reactions! I like to see my country from another perspective! I can reccomend watching the videos of notjustbikes about city planning and road networks in the netherlands !

Beautiful province of (South) Limburg with their hills and non-Dutch lifestyle and old citys.👍

The Dutch prove that with dedication and willingness and just a "little" landmass and "minimal" need use of water we would be able feed the world a couple of times over. But we would need other countries to do this as well as one country doing everything is just too vulnerable (look at Ukraine now with grain). But I fear corporate greed from certain countries will probably always get in the way...

I live in the Hague, and many nights, when its cloudy, the sky is totally lit up bright yellow from all the greenhouses from Wateringen and other outlying areas. Makes me quite proud, even though its serious light pollution of course. Small price to pay.

Thank you for your positive reaction. I really appreciate that. I saw your Geo video about Holland with two other gentlemen and 1 made me a bit (just a little bit) pissed of when he sayed America is a superpower. It is not about the amounts of weapons or wars you start. It is about investing in technology and making it interesting for students to want to be a part of it. It is good for employment, development and environment. And I love the beauty of your HUGE country (In the Netherlands you drive 1,5 or 2 hours every way and you are out the Netherlands. That's how tiny this land is. In my opinion I think Holland is the powerhouse hear. Also with other stuff and legalization from many (for USA controversial) topics. But that's another topic. Thank you again for being a more humble American guy! Was heartwarming to me.

Currently we just need 4 liters for 1 kilo of tomatoes

WE DO IT GOOD HERE ,GR FROM HOLLAND

the netherlands, the dutch. we are efficient. time is money. faster better smarter. we adapt. if somebody can't deliver something we need, we get it ourselves. between 1498\1595 the spice trade was entirely in the hands of the portugeze. after spain invaded portugal the spanish basically banned dutch ships from their harbors. so no more trade for us. what did we do? we set out into the world to go and get the spices. we started companies to do that. but it got decided that we needed 1 big unified company. so they forced the companies to fuse and in the meantime invented the stock market, they needed money so they sold stocks of this company (the voc). so that they could get money to start this company up. ships weren't cheap. so allot of wealthy became stockholders. and so in 1602 the voc was founded and given the sole dutch privilege to sale and conduct bussiness in certain seas. no other dutch company was allowed to do that, and on top of that the state forced them to work in such a way that the spanish and portugese would suffer in any way possible.. at that point the dutch started to outdo all the other big players. they became the number 1 in trade. the voc had it's own private military it wasn't the states military. they had their colonies to defend with this military. in the end when the voc companie ended their military went to the state. at the top of their bussiness they had 107 ships in the waters purely for trade in asia. in total they existed roughly 200 years and build 4700 ships. this company was 200 years old, the united states atm is only 245 years old. the voc is also the reason why we are known for tulips.

A friend of mine went to that univercity, he studied Tropical agriculture, he studied how to help tropical countries produce more food. in his class there where people from 15 countries as exchange students...

In the last winter of World War Two a lot of Dutch people, those north of the big rivers where the Germans were still in power, suffered a severe famine because food couldn't be imported. That Hungerwinter made the country determined never again to be that dependent on imported food. That was at the root of the Dutch agricultural revolution.

i am a nederlander and i thank for using the correct term the netherlands , i am neither dutch nor do i come from holland . i come from a town named tilburg and from the province north brabant in the netherlands . and no there is no such thing as dutchland . thank you for showing you to be intellegent human being .

My grandpa was a tomato farmer

You should visit the netherlands when you can, you are welcome! I live in Smilde in the provence of Drenthe(one of the longest towns in the netherlands).it way different out here. Culture is more.. down to earth, people are a little rougher and more genuine. The area I live in is more like your mid-west.

Great interesting video...learned some also.. Our country small...but its all about qaulity .....and innovation...to make things better.. Thanks H..for sharing .. 🙏😇💜🧘‍♀️🌍🙏

When I lived in the Netherlands (for over 35 years ;-) ) I lived near the beating heart of the greenhouses, the Westland (my wife is from Westland). It is a region in the West of Holland. While living there, I never paid much attention to the innovating tech we had there. Now I live in Canada and there are actually a lot of Dutch farmers and greenhouse owners in my Region (Niagara Region). 1 of my friends works in a "Dutch" greenhouse group and gets his technologies from The Netherlands. It's a small world and the Dutch will supply the food.

If the Dutch took over all of American farmlands, I think we would be able to *literally* feed the whole world. Hunger would be eliminated, and so would GMO foods! :)

Farming brings only a few % in by the way...services is what brings in the money, transportation, and manifacturing..

We still have a problem reducing nitrogen oxides and ammonia emissions.

I love your videos man!

This dude is literally the definition of financial literacy he's not just giving you stock picks like other KZfaqrs he actually teaches you how to read the market and such. Good luck to everyone watching this, May your investment yield you outstanding profits.

Agriculture, farmers...lately there's been some debate about that. Seems to me the government isn't that supportive anymore. For many farmers it is hard to keep up with all the rules and regulations. There is a lot of talk now about downscaling, specifically livestock. Also about the repurposing of farmland back to nature, especially along waterfronts, as flooding is becoming more and more a thing due to heavy rainfall etc. Just saying, it's not as ideal as portrayed here. But the essentials are right on the dot. Farming has changed a lot. Nowadays with GPS and drones and all that they can dose exactly how much fertiliser, water or pest control is needed for optimal growth. On the livestock side of things more and more is done with computers and robots (feeding, milking, cleaning stables) so less farmhands are needed and a farmer can keep regular working hours instead of 24/7 as until very recently was still a thing (although with animals you never know ofc). The energy for these innovations is provided by solar panels on the stables or windturbines on some land nearby. It's a whole new world, it's true.

its my understanding and i could be wrong but the Netherlands is the second biggest exporter of produce in the world and it was the first but it is the biggest exporter of produce in the European union as the video says.

You should take a look at some aerial footage or satellite images of 'Westland'. Even the satellite pictures at night look incredible.

one thing that has not been mentioned is that he Dutch government is now trying to get rid of the farmers because they think farmers produce too much co2. it's sad because farming is what made my country great, but hopefully that gets changed soon.

'Up there in the Netherlands'

Nothing magical is happening in the Netherlands. It's straightforward science and economics. Any country can do this if they get their shit together. In fact if y'all get your agricultural shit together like us you would outcompete us in no time :)

I actually study at the University of Wageningen, so this video was really fun to watch. Just made a project about the food valley.

Amersfoort Unbelievable Beautiful City | Amersfoort centrum | Amersfoort museum (The Netherlands).

Your winning the harts off al Dutch people outside off Holland. No one outside of the Netherlands knows anything about us. And you are more interested in us than in Holland. How did you see us? I don't know. But much love to you!

My parents work at the university of Wageningen. There are some really cool projects going on there! One group is working on how to grow food on Mars!!

The real reason why dutch are great at agraculture: we dont have good weather for growing weed, so we had to figure out how to grow good weed in our climate. This is actually true but people dont like it when weed does good things😂😂

And now all the farmers are angry in The Netherlands because of stupid rules from our government.

The Germans used to call our tomatoes "wasserbomben" which means waterballoons. Since they had so little taste and were mostly water. Thats why there's been a huge move to smaller more tasty tomatoes types.

The thing about my country is that we're trying very hard to be important to the world, and we're willing to go looong lengths to get to that point. Things like the research that Wageningen is doing will impact the entire world, that's our goal.

water from a drone haha never used here but yeah it looks funny

I believe you knows already more then me of the Netherlands and i live there my hole 19 year old life. 😂

Don't forget that Eindhoven (outside Holland but in the Netherlands) is the true silicon valley! It's where all chip manufacturers get there machines. At ASML. And it's the home of Phillips.

The magic comes from the see 🤣thats why

@4:20 and contra to greece and france we are a net payer to the european union so on that basis we loose money in that construction regardless of subsidies, which function less to support anything but the european parliament and its staff really

Nice to find you watching this video. Wageningen University, Plant Science Group i work at! 😁

Nethers, I like that!

I was actually really surprise we were second on food, it doesnt feel like we haev much😁(probally cuz i live on the Veluwe(its a forest type of area)

We do so well because we are creative, smart and we love to be the first 1 to find answer to a problem and most of all we dont like to give other people money for things so you have to invent them. By make good juse of the universitys it is a cheap way to get answers 😃

Imagine what happened when some students of the Wageningen university decided to have a look at marihuana growth.

Funny to see, the company I work for has built the cleanrooms voor the university of wageningen.

goodmorning come to groningen city the best place from the nederlands .... Grunn !!!

The Netherlands feeds the world with smart greenhouses, most of them center in we called the Westland, that's where i am from.

America First, The Netherlands Second. Also our tomatoes suck on the whole. They used to be tastier back in the 90s. I would pick a Spanish or Italian tomato over a Dutch one, any day of the week. Not to talk smack about our innovations; it's not always quality over quantity. But I feel that quantity was the aim for these types of food anyway, just because of reasons explained in the video.

It ain't much if it ain't much! Such a small country but such a BIG country!!

Paul it really simple it all starts when we are young .. Our school system is also one of the best of the world . there is a norm of learning here .. And the fact that lots of childeren are kids of farmers and whant to go further and further in knowledge.. Iam living only 10 minutes from the University of Wageningen and thats a university where you will get gobsmacked of when you drive by it. I sayd this a view weeks aggo also. If we Dutch do someting we do it in the most creative way and if its 50 % we dont even do it at all.. Look at Rotterdam and its seaport that will be the biggest in the world very soon again .. No halv work here.. Everything us bigger in The Netherlands and not in Texas hahaa.. Thats a joke i love the texans and there big thinking but we do it more productive. Witch means more economic grow.. 👍🍟😍

"Return to Eden" Marijn Poels interesting documentary. I am a Dutch person myself. About climate and farming life 👌

Watch Wageningen University's Lip Dub. It's the best........

I mean Amsterdam and Rotterdam are popular but if you really wanne see something beautiful just go and look at zeeland I mean start looking at google picture's almost no one talks about it but like the popularity dubbels in the summer because off people come here for vacation and probably 80% are German that come

The Netherlands, "thanks for the food" Stanford (facebook,google,twitter,...) censordhip, "thanks for nothing"

Look up gelderland its so green the veluwe is realy good . They allways talk about holland . But gelderland drente friesland limburg is lots nice and not alot of toerist

Education Education and innovation.

Which country would be the best for you to live, if you want? And about the tomatoes.. not only less water but also more vitamins stay inside the tomatoes!(and also the other fruits and vegetables)

thats why there's the saying if country 's can't fixs somthing : Call the Dutch!!!

Look at the youtube channel: Not just bikes, which has a lot of videos comparing american and dutch traffic design

When you are coming ? Everybody is welcome here and you will get everything you will need

No Farmers No Food

van harte gefeliciteert

with tomatos :)

This year 110 mijard export..plus 10 procent .

Ahh, Wageningen. There is a reason why Dutch weed has become so potent. World class progressive Agricultural University + young agriculture students.+ Cannabis Sativa = ..? Get the picture? Most profs probably also enjoyed a joint so every now and then and were on board.