Record exports for The Netherlands

According to CFCE, The Netherlands would have had record exports of onions and fresh fruit & vegetables in 2001. Indeed, in the second half of the year, onion exports amounted to 309 000 tons compared to 296 000 tons in 2000. Africa, malaysia, Russia and the United Kingdom stood for 60% of the Dutch exports in December. As for fresh fruit and vegetables, 2.74 million tons had been exported.