Exporting: 8 lessons from tiny Holland

One can understand the United States of America, straddling a continent from Pacific to Atlantic Ocean, being the world’s biggest agricultural exporter, but how does the Netherlands (also called Holland), a country 273 times smaller than the USA, come in at position 2?

A reader from Limpopo writes in

We receive some ten emails a week from people looking for help on one agricultural issue or another. It was when we received two in succession about pigs that we decided to do an article.