Trick or Treat: Dutch Pumpkin exports rise but so do imports
 

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The Dutch may have only recently discovered Halloween, but the pumpkin export market is on the up, new figures from national statistics office CBS show.

Even though less land is devoted to growing pumpkins than a year ago, exports hit 21 million kilos in the first five months of this year, up from 18.7 million kilos in 2017.

Some 350 companies are currently growing pumpkins in the Netherlands, and 754 hectares of arable land is devoted to the vegetable.

The Netherlands may be exporting more pumpkins, but imports are also up. Between January and the end of May, imports reached 37.7 million kilos, up a marginal 700,000 kilos on 2017.


https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/1...so-do-imports/

It's USA import.



Trick or Treat
is now banned in some streets

Kids love it though. I had friends staying from Germany recently and their kids were mesmerised by the whole Halloween thing. They took loads of |Halloween stuff back with them... I think it's good fun.