{"id":94079,"date":"2019-07-24T07:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/inside-the-tiny-country-where-robots-grow-the-food"},"modified":"2019-07-24T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:04:44","slug":"inside-the-tiny-country-where-robots-grow-the-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/inside-the-tiny-country-where-robots-grow-the-food","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Tiny Country Where Robots Grow The Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-tiny-country-where-robots-grow-the-food3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This innovation drive, including increasing use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/automation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">automation<\/a> on farms like Dijkstra\u2019s, has helped propel a country with a land mass smaller than the state of West Virginia to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.government.nl\/latest\/news\/2018\/01\/19\/agricultural-exports-worth-nearly-%E2%82%AC92-billion-in-2017\">world\u2019s second-biggest food exporter after the U.S.<\/a>, with agri-food exports worth more than $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s dairy, and fruit and vegetables \u2015 where technologies like milking and harvesting robots are becoming commonplace in the Netherlands \u2015 that account for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wur.nl\/en\/newsarticle\/Dutch-export-of-agricultural-products-exceeds-90-billion-in-2018.htm\"> biggest share<\/a> of that export revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutomation has been part of that success story,\u201d said Erik Nicholson of the United Farm Workers of America. The Netherlands \u201cis seen as a world leader because of the innovation going on there and the output it manages despite its comparatively small size.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This innovation drive, including increasing use of automation on farms like Dijkstra\u2019s, has helped propel a country with a land mass smaller than the state of West Virginia to become the world\u2019s second-biggest food exporter after the U.S., with agri-food exports worth more than $100 billion. And it\u2019s dairy, and fruit and vegetables \u2015 where [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}