AGRICULTURE Companies in Netherlands: Full List
Approximately 171,553 real businesses classified under Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Netherlands, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 171,553 real businesses operate in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector across Netherlands. Agriculture looks like the simplest sector to verify — a farm, a name, a plot of land. It rarely is. Ownership here often runs through family trusts, cooperatives, and, in many jurisdictions, foreign-land-ownership restrictions that route control through a domestic holding entity instead of the operator you would expect. The sector spans crop and livestock farms, forestry and logging operators, and commercial fisheries and aquaculture producers feeding raw commodities into much longer supply chains. For due diligence, the real exposure is not the farm gate — it is the subsidy filings, land-registry disclosures, and supply-chain traceability rules sitting on top of it.
173 companies in this sector are indexed on Zavia so far, part of a continually growing dataset.
Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Netherlands follow the same national framework as every other sector there.
Full Netherlands beneficial ownership overviewTop Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Companies in Netherlands
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts for SIC Code A in Netherlands, as of the last reconciliation.
Section A is 2% of the Netherlands register by entity count and its 14th largest sector — see all sectors.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you
Agriculture looks straightforward to verify in the Netherlands and often isn’t. The most common structure for a family farm is the maatschap, a partnership with no separate legal personality at all — its partners (maten) are liable only for an equal share of the partnership’s debts, not jointly and severally, and formation requires no minimum starting capital, just a contribution of money, goods or labour from each partner. A maatschap can operate publicly under a joint trade name or stay undisclosed, and either way its ownership sits with the individual partners rather than the farming operation itself.
The sector is also in the middle of a large, government-funded restructuring: the Dutch government has spent €1.81 billion buying out 723 livestock farms under a voluntary nitrogen-reduction scheme, opened to the roughly 3,000 farms depositing the most nitrogen on nearby Natura 2000 nature reserves — a real transaction history worth checking when verifying whether a specific farm is still an active operator or has already exited under the scheme. Separately, legislation is in progress to merge the maatschap and VOF partnership forms into a single ‘vennootschap’ structure that, unlike today’s maatschap, would be able to hold legal personality of its own — a structural change worth tracking for how it will affect ownership verification.
What changed recently
Sector-specific developments that change how this data is used. Each carries a verification date so it can be refreshed on a schedule.
The EU deforestation rules apply from 30 December 2026
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires operators placing cattle, wood, cocoa, coffee, palm oil or soya on the EU market to prove their supply chains are deforestation-free. After two postponements — originally due 30 December 2024, then pushed to 30 December 2025 — the Council of the EU adopted a further revision in December 2025 moving the application date for all operators to 30 December 2026, with an additional six-month allowance for micro and small operators to 30 June 2027. For Netherlands operators and exporters supplying the EU market, this is now the operative compliance deadline.
Source: Council of the EU, 18 December 2025 · Last verified 7 October 2026.
Netherlands Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, by the register
Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.
Entities by sub-sector
SIC division level, live from official registries.
Active vs. inactive
Section A entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file, Section A, Netherlands. 56 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses Netherlands agriculture, forestry and fishing ownership data
The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.
EUDR supply-chain due diligence
Proving a Dutch wood, soy-feed or cattle supplier is who they claim to be, upstream of the first EU-bound trader, before the December 2026 deadline. Many Dutch farms operate as a maatschap, a partnership with no separate legal personality, making ownership resolution harder than for a registered BV.
Nitrogen buyout scheme participation check
The Dutch government spent €1.81 billion buying out 723 livestock farms under its nitrogen-reduction scheme, opened to the roughly 3,000 farms with the highest nitrogen deposition on Natura 2000 nature reserves — a real, checkable transaction history relevant to whether a farm is still operating or has actually exited.
Agri-lending and input credit
A maatschap has no separate legal personality and its partners are liable only for an equal share of its debts (not jointly and severally) — a structural feature that changes how lenders and input suppliers actually assess exposure compared to a BV-structured operation.
Sub-sectors within Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
SIC divisions inside this section, each with its own Netherlands company directory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies are registered in Netherlands?
Approximately 171,553 real businesses operate under Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Netherlands.
What does the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector include in Netherlands?
Agriculture looks like the simplest sector to verify — a farm, a name, a plot of land. It rarely is. Ownership here often runs through family trusts, cooperatives, and, in many jurisdictions, foreign-land-ownership restrictions that route control through a domestic holding entity instead of the operator you would expect. The sector spans crop and livestock farms, forestry and logging operators, and commercial fisheries and aquaculture producers feeding raw commodities into much longer supply chains. For due diligence, the real exposure is not the farm gate — it is the subsidy filings, land-registry disclosures, and supply-chain traceability rules sitting on top of it.
How is company ownership disclosed for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Netherlands?
The same national framework applies here as for every other sector in Netherlands — there is no sector-specific beneficial-ownership regime for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing.
Can I see all industries present in Netherlands?
Yes — the Netherlands company directory lists every industry with recorded companies for that jurisdiction, alongside the full beneficial-ownership overview for Netherlands.
Can I see Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in other countries?
Yes — the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector directory lists every country with recorded Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies on Zavia.
Can Zavia monitor changes to Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Netherlands over time?
A directory listing is a snapshot, not a live feed. Zavia's monitoring API tracks changes to registered shareholders, officers, and group structure for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Netherlands going forward, flagging updates as they are filed instead of requiring a manual recheck.
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