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Geert Wilders: Dutch nitrogen targets are ‘leftist rubbish.’

 

 

‘There would be no Netherlands without our farmers, without our fishermen...They are who we are. They are in our genes. They are in our history. Holland is built on the farmers and fishermen, and everybody has a lot of sympathy for them.’

The government of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is imposing climate change policies, including a 30% reduction in the use of nitrogen, on the agricultural sector that farmers say will limit yields, force them from their land and drive up the cost of food to consumers.

"There would be no Netherlands without our farmers, without our fishermen...They are who we are. They are in our genes. They are in our history. Holland is built on the farmers and fishermen, and everybody has a lot of sympathy for them"

The widescale protests, ongoing for over three years, have reignited as Netherlander's head to the polls next week in provincial elections.

After the United States, the Netherlands is the world's largest exporter of agricultural produce. The Dutch agricultural sector exports nearly $70 billion USD of agricultural produce annually.

Read this interview on the website of Rebel News.