Comparing the agricultural foreign trades of Turkey and Netherlands: The case of The Netherlands

Food is one of the basic needs of the mankind, so the importance of the agriculture will always continue. Nowadays, food from plants and animals can reach people all around the world with division of labor and specialization. Despite the phases of the agriculture and property layout has similar sides for all countries today, the evolution of the developed capitalist countries and that did not transit to capitalism like Ottoman and therefore Turkey has differences. Netherlands is the second biggest exporter on agricultural products export in the world after the USA. Although it is one of the smallest countries in the world in terms of its surface area, it is examined in this study how Netherlands export of agricultural products is so high. At the same time as a model to Turkey's agriculture and foreign trade in agricultural products, Dutch agriculture practices are the other subjects of this study. Keywords: Netherlands' agriculture, Turkey's agriculture, agricultural product foreign trade, Netherlands re-export, agrofood export