The Netherlands will soon be a massive exporter of flood-control knowledge and technology as well. It's like they've been practicing for global warming for the entire lifetime of their country.
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant
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Are you seriously asking what productive work people can do other than farming?
I'm seriously asking what productive work can billions of people from underdeveloped and unstable countries do. Without access to lucrative markets, too.
Move from primary to secondary and then tertiary or just jump to tertiary or even reach quanternary sector
Talking about three sector theory
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#43 The Hague produces vegetables and fish in a self sustaining loop:
Fish waste fertilizes plants, which filter the water for the fish.
Local restaurants proudly offer the veggies and “city swimmers.”
See more at https://qz.com/907971/the-netherlands-basically-reinvented-t...
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#45I just wish they would fix that taste problems. I'm sick of tasteless tomatoes...
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It's not just the tomatoes. Everything in the UK supermarket is quite bad. It's a cultural thing I suppose.
Its not culture, it is for the benefit of big companies. The best tasting vegetables also spoil easily. The ones sold in supermarkets are the varieties that can be sold longer, usually with poor flavor.
It's culture that lets them get away with it. If British people valued tasty tomatoes, they wouldn't buy the rubbish in the supermarkets. Everyone would know a guy who can hook them up with the good stuff, for a price, and the geriatric mafia who control the allotments would be rolling around in Bentleys.
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#47Here in the UK, tomatoes from the Netherlands are the most common sold in British supermarkets. Unfortunately, they are quite flavourless. The type of tomato (and price) makes no difference (organic, vine-ripened, salad). Most of them are usually semi-ripe. Even if you allow them to ripen at home for a few days, they are still quite tasteless. Presumably, Italy keeps its best tomato produce for themselves and I don't…
Dutch farmers recognised this and focused on new/other kinds of tomatoes with much better taste like cherry tomatoes and vine tomatoes.
If you compare a typical Dutch tomato to a supersized watermelon type tomato from California, the Dutch tomatoes are ten times more flavorful.
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Italian tomatoes are just better to an extent that's almost magical.
And probably you don't know the best... have you ever try a "cuore di bue"?
Heirloom tomatoes...
In next door Albania they are called "Zemërkau", which it translates "cuore di bue". Very delish, and fortunately local farmers like to grow them for themselves, so you will always find cheap good ones during the season.
The reason they are really good as they are the most similar to the original wild tomatoes, and less likely to have been modified just because their color and shape as most grocery common tomatoes are.
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#49produce is remarkably cheap at the markets in Amsterdam compared to southern California. Chicken is much more expensive.
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#50Here in the UK, tomatoes from the Netherlands are the most common sold in British supermarkets. Unfortunately, they are quite flavourless. The type of tomato (and price) makes no difference (organic, vine-ripened, salad). Most of them are usually semi-ripe. Even if you allow them to ripen at home for a few days, they are still quite tasteless. Presumably, Italy keeps its best tomato produce for themselves and I don't…
The problem with tomatoes is that if you pick them ripe they are fragile. So if they are picked ripe, it makes it more difficult to ship them. And then this gets exacerbated when the varieties are selected for shipping and shelf life rather than flavor.
Applies to more than just tomatoes really, though i guess tomatoes are more noticeable in this regard.