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The countryside provides us with food. Yet it is also a landscape. The natural world. And the basis of a green economy. The work of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) focuses on balancing these elements. And to do so we involve citizens, industry, social organisations and government. Together we provide healthy food while maintaining a respect for people, the environment and all of its living organisms. Respect for a diverse, thriving natural world and a splendid landscape that people will be able to enjoy both now and in the future. And respect for a strong agrarian economy that is internationally successful. We do that by stimulating innovation. And by providing financial support, steering, supervising and proposing regulations.
The motto of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality therefore is 'Living off the land, caring for nature'.
Q fever has existed in the Netherlands for a very long time, infecting some 20 people every year up to 2007. Suddenly, in 2007, 170 people fell ill with the disease. In 2008 there were 1000 cases and in 2009 there have been more than 2100 known cases of people becoming infected with Q fever.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport have taken measures to control Q fever.
Low pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a poultry farm with some 28,000 chickens in Deurne, the Netherlands.
