Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is the Dutch Ministry responsible for agricultural policy, food policy, food safety, fisheries, forestry, natural conservation and animal welfare. The Ministry was created in 1935 and in 2010 the department was merged with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and was named the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation. The Ministry was reinstated in 2017; it is headed by the Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, a member of the Cabinet of the Netherlands. This post is currently occupied by Piet Adema of the Christian Union. Despite its small size, the Netherlands is the worlds' second exporter of agricultural products, after the United States.
19 August 1957
Born on the same birth date (19 August 1957): Christine Soetewey • Gary Chapman (musician) • Ian Gould • Martin Donovan • Paul-Jan Bakker
Born on the same birth day (19 August): Alfred Rouleau • Anna Terruwe • Anuška Ferligoj • Claude Gauvreau • Dennis Poore • Eustace Budgell • Gene Roddenberry • Gerard Schwarz • Herb Narvo • Iban Mayo • Kevin Dillon • Michael Todd (musician) • Missy Higgins • Patricia Scotland • Probus (emperor) • Saori Kimura • Tasma Walton • Terry Hoeppner
Born in the same month (August 1957): Bernhard Langer • Christine Soetewey • Colm O'Rourke • Friedhelm Schütte • Gary Chapman (musician) • Ian Gould • Larry Corowa • Laura Innes • Stephen Fry • Tan Dun • Tasos Mitropoulos