Nearly 29,000 farms are affected by the Dutch government’s plans to reduce nitrogen emissions

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2022. 07. 21. 11:05

According to the calculations of the Dutch Ministry of Finance, 11,200 livestock farms would have to be closed and another 17,600 would have to reduce the number of animals they keep in order to comply with European Union rules on reducing nitrogen pollution, the NlTimes news portal wrote on Thursday.

Reduction of nitrogen pollution in the Netherlands may mean closing livestock farms

About 40-50 thousand livestock farms are registered in the Netherlands.

According to reports, the government’s goal is to reduce nitrogen emissions to such an extent by 2030 that almost 75 percent of the Dutch nature conservation areas belonging to the EU’s Natura 2000 ecological network remain below the nitrogen level considered safe for nature. The Dutch cabinet made 24.3 billion euros available to achieve this goal. (MTI)