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To: Trinity5
--- "Reality check... The Netherlands is the 2nd largest exporter of food behind the USA."

Food. The subject has been that subset of food -- wheat.

One finds:

Top 10 Wheat Producing Countries (in tons of wheat produced 2020)*
China — 134,254,710
India — 107,590,000
Russia — 85,896,326
United States — 49,690,680
Canada — 35,183,000
France — 30,144,110
Pakistan — 25,247,511
Ukraine — 24,912,350
Germany — 22,172,100
Turkey — 20,500,000

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wheat-production-by-country

Wiki validates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production_statistics

Visual Capitalist validates: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualizing-global-wheat-production-by-country/

Atlas Big validates: https://www.atlasbig.com/en-us/countries-wheat-production

World Agriculture lists differently, conflating the EU as one entity:
China: 138,000,000
European Union: 134,300,000
India: 103,000,000
Russia: 91,000,000
United States: 44,902,000
Australia: 36,600,000

Source: http://www.worldagriculturalproduction.com/crops/wheat.aspx

As to the Netherlands alone: "In 2021, wheat production for Netherlands was 947,250 thousand tonnes. Though Netherlands wheat production fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to increase through 1972 - 2021 period ending at 947,250 thousand tonnes in 2021."

Source: https://knoema.com/atlas/Netherlands/topics/Agriculture/Crops-Production-Quantity-tonnes/Wheat-production

Netherlands, at less than 100 thousand tons is significantly behind the "100 million" club, and does not rank above even Turkey's 20 million.

This is interesting also, as World-Grain has a search bar at the top right. Typing in "wheat" only shows no articles about actual production by nation. Sosland, the web site publisher is located in Kansas City.

Additionally, OEC reports of the Netherlands, "In 2021, Netherlands exported $139M in Wheat, making it the 31st largest exporter of Wheat in the world.

Source: https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wheat/reporter/nld

The same page observes that "In 2021, Netherlands imported $1.25B in Wheat, becoming the 15th largest importer of Wheat in the world."

Your posted article conflates "food" with "wheat." Please review.

Best wishes, in this wide world of reality checks, data and sources.

54 posted on 07/17/2023 7:21:50 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
OPs comment that I questioned:

"Holland is not feeding the world"

I was merely pointing out the ignorance of the original comment. Or would you opine that being the second largest exporter of food (behind the USA) isn't "feeding the world"?

83 posted on 07/17/2023 3:05:01 PM PDT by Trinity5
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