Agricultural exports worth nearly €92 billion in 2017

In 2017 the Netherlands exported €91.7 billion in agricultural goods. This marked another new record, up 7% on 2016 when exports totalled €85.5 billion. Last year the Netherlands also exported agriculture-related goods such as farm machinery, chemical fertilisers and plant protection products worth €9.1 billion. These provisional figures (produced by Statistics Netherlands and Wageningen Economic Research) were presented today by the Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Carola Schouten, at International Green Week (IGW) – an agricultural trade fair held every year in Berlin. To read more