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Greenhouse tomatoes and flower bulbs are particularly well-known. Starch, sugar and lactic acid are important further processed products. Garden centres impress internationally with a wide variety of horticultural products, such as ornamental plants as well as landscape plants from the Netherlands. The chemical industry, a second pillar of the country's economy, also offers opportunities for bio-based and sustainable economic growth. Many companies focus on bio-based chemicals and biopolymers.

Additionally, there is strong involvement in the fields of green chemistry and biorefinery. Supported by an innovation policy based on economics and attractive tax policy, there is a growing innovative middle class. There is no bioeconomy strategy, but numerous measures with a thematic focus on the bioeconomy.

The oil and fishing industries in particular increase export revenues, the aquaculture sector is a major aspect of the latter. The wood, paper and food industries are among the main economic sectors in the country, which are also highly relevant for the development of a bioeconomy. In spring 2015, the government decided to develop a national bioeconomy strategy.