Netherlands’s structural transformation in agriculture and its reflections on international trade

The Netherlands, who is the second biggest agricultural exporter country in the World in last years, whose agricultural sector has been compared with Turkey’s agricultural sector by politicians, acedemicians, presses and many other parties. How a country can have this kind of success with a less arable area than Konya Plain? However, in order to answer this question the national literature has been searched and no academic paper has been found about the structural transformation of agricalture and its reflections to foreign trade in the Netherlands. In this terms this paper will be the first article on this subject in national level. There are many books, articles and research papers have been published on the Turkey’s agricultural sector, that is why this article will focus on the the Netherlands’ agricultural transformation and its reflections on her foreign trade. In this context, the historical development of this transformation will be briefly examined and the reflected results to current agricultural production, R&D investments, locomotive instutions of inovations, total factor efficiences and international trade will be laid out with using of ampirical data.