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#2 exporter of food in the world

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The US is the #1 exporter of food.

Take a guess as to what nation is #1. See if you can get it before you look:



The Netherlands.
Really?
Yes, it shows what high tech can do. Maybe it can even feed the nine billion or so humans who will be on the Earth by 2050.

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[FONT=&quot]Densely populated Netherlands, with 17 million people and a GDP similar to the state of Illinois, is the second-largest exporter of food products in the world as measured by volume of sales. Frank Viviano explains in "This Tiny Country Feeds the World: The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like," which appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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Well, I wasn't expecting that. Cool bit of trivia.
 
Canada?
 
Dittohead not! said:
The US is the #1 exporter of food.

Take a guess as to what nation is #1. See if you can get it before you look:



The Netherlands.
Really?
Yes, it shows what high tech can do. Maybe it can even feed the nine billion or so humans who will be on the Earth by 2050.

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[COLOR=#333333][FONT="]Densely populated Netherlands, with 17 million people and a GDP similar to the state of Illinois, is the second-largest exporter of food products in the world as measured by volume of sales. Frank Viviano explains in "This Tiny Country Feeds the World: The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like," which appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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I was going to guess either Canada or Argentina. Some large coastal country at a latitude closer to the poles then the equator. This was very surprising
 
Surprising and interesting
 
I think you are going to see a switch in farming soon. hydroponic farms are going to be the way of the future and there is a huge move to do just that.
they take up less land and yield about the same or more in crops. the down side right now like everything is cost. a full production farm costs a few million.
 
Surprised me as well.

Agriculture, as it is currently being practiced in much of the world, is not sustainable . Aquifers are being depleted, and will sooner or later run out. It looks like maybe the world can still produce enough food for the foreseeable future, even with a growing population. Good news for our grandchildren and great grandchildren.
 
The Netherlands.

I did not look. I recalled having read TN was amazingly high, amazing even though fresh produce from there has been available locally for years
 
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