Most of strawberries come from glasshouses and plastic tunnels. Exports nearly 60 percent of the strawberries.
This is evident from figures published Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
About 23 million kilos of Dutch strawberries we eat itself, partly fresh, partly incorporated into cakes, desserts and preserves. The remaining 30 million kilograms is exported, mainly to countries in Europe.
Forty percent went to Belgium in 2014, 15 percent in Norway, 15 percent in Germany and 10 percent in the UK.
To export value measured in the strawberry has become one of the most important horticultural vegetables from Netherlands, after the tomato, pepper and cucumber.
Noord-Brabant
come Most strawberries from Noord-Brabant. Last year there was 79 percent of the total area cultivated in our country. The strawberry cultivation is mostly found in the southwest and east of North Brabant, in Zundert when the strawberries center. In Limburg was to find 12 percent of the crop area
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In 2014, according to the statistical office 29 million kilos of strawberries under glass and picked in tunnels, more than doubling compared to 1998. The production conditions in the greenhouse are much better than on the ground.
Thanks to the greenhouses there are to get year strawberries. In winter they come from heated greenhouses in the spring and autumn of plastic tunnels, and in the summer months from the cold ground
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