The Wheat Fields Of France - Images Buried In Statistics.

[Maladict]

This always seems wrong to me.

Top 5 countries by agricultural exports:

Country    Exports (in billions)
United States    $118.3
Netherlands    $79
Germany    $70.8
France    $68
Brazil    $55.4

[mongers]

This always seems wrong to me.

Top 5 countries by agricultural exports:

Country    Exports (in billions)
United States    $118.3
Netherlands    $79
Germany    $70.8
France    $68
Brazil    $55.4

The soft power of pigs and cheese?

[Maladict]

The soft power of bigs and cheese?

Mostly flowers and vegetables I think. Relatively high-value stuff.
But still, it's an awful lot for so little available space.

[mongers]

The soft power of bigs and cheese?

Mostly flowers and vegetables I think. Relatively high-value stuff.
But still, it's an awful lot for so little available space.

Yeah I forgot about vegatables, though I'd guess flowers aren't included in agricultural exports?

edit:
Here's the answer, probably what you'd expect from an advanced economy with a good agricultural base, so plenty of finished food products, though how cigarettes are in there I don't understand:

Rank   Commodity   Q.tonnes   Value.1000 $   Unit.Val.($/tonne)
1   Cigarettes   139,221   3,990,180   28,661
2   Cheese of Whole Cow Milk   678,410   3,733,226   5,503
3   Food Prep Nes   917,853   3,527,694   3,843
4   Food Wastes   2,710,178   2,295,383   847
5   Chicken meat   995,945   2,208,782   2,218
6   Cake of Soybeans   4,575,464   1,994,336   436
7   Meat-CattleBoneless(Beef&Veal)   238,752   1,983,973   8,310
8   Beer of Barley   1,674,103   1,883,519   1,125
9   Palm oil   1,288,157   1,720,598   1,336
10   Tomatoes   1,039,773   1,577,975   1,518
11   Chocolate Prsnes   318,257   1,542,823   4,848
12   Frozen Potatoes   1,430,766   1,460,437   1,021
13   Beverage Non-Alc   1,051,992   1,389,727   1,321
14   Pastry   338,199   1,229,134   3,634
15   Chillies and peppers, green   474,013   1,167,422   2,463
16   Infant Food   131,683   1,132,791   8,602
17   Pig meat   479,147   1,130,840   2,360
18   Cocoapowder&Cake   214,553   1,097,451   5,115
19   Cocoa Butter   212,629   1,070,350   5,034
20   Butter Cow Milk   175,924   1,020,067   5,798


Netherlands seems to be the food re-processor of choice for quiet a few crops grown elsewhere.

[grumbler]

The soft power of bigs and cheese?

Mostly flowers and vegetables I think. Relatively high-value stuff.
But still, it's an awful lot for so little available space.

Dutch farmers have long been the world's most modern farmers.  I think I read somewhere that they are four times as efficient in dollar output per acre as the EU average (that was before the EU expansion, so it might be higher now) and they export an overwhelming proportion of what they produce.  It is remarkable, all the same, that a country with such limited arable land produced so much food value.

[mongers]

When I was born there was enough* land for each person on the planet to have 4.65 hectares.

My estimate is that 2017 will see that area fall below 2 hectares per person for the first* time.



*note the intentional biasing use of words.