{"id":6501,"date":"2020-02-12T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:36:33","slug":"dutch-farmers-are-upset-at-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dutch-farmers-are-upset-at-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Farmers are Upset at the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, Sten wrote a post about the nitrogen crisis<\/a> or the stikstofcrisis<\/em> in the Netherlands and the effects on speed limit and the construction industry. In this post, I would like to focus on the Dutch farmers, how this crisis has affected farming and what the farmers and government have been doing about this situation.<\/p>\n

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Photo taken by Paul van de Velde found on Flickr.com with license CC BY 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n

Boerenprotest 2019<\/h3>\n

In an effort to\u00a0verminderen <\/em>or\u00a0reduce nitrogen emissions, the government started making plans to cut the veehouderij<\/em> or the animal husbandry sector. This sector is responsible for 46% percent of the nitrogen emissions in the country. This restriction would limit how much the farmers could produce. The farmers\u00a0quickly made their sentiments made known to the overheid<\/em> by protesting in Malieveld in The Hague on October 1st, 2019. Farmers from all over the country made their way to The Hague in their tractors causing chaos on the streets. In Malieveld, the green area near the station in The Hague that has become an unofficial protest site, the farmers parked their tractors and demanded that the government end plans to limit the sector. On October 14, the farmers staged their second protest, this time in their respective province offices demanding support. The protests continued in the last months of 2019 with several different actions. The video below is about the protest in Malieveld.<\/p>\n