It comes as a new coalition government agreement was reached this month, according to the Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom.
The aim of the $36-billion voluntary program is to reduce nitrogen which is polluting the country’s waterways and aquifers.
The Dutch government figures the offers will reduce livestock and poultry numbers by about a third.
The plan has been talked about for years, but faced opposition from farmers, including large protest demonstrations, unless the buyouts would be voluntary.
The Netherlands' top courts ruled in 2019 that the country was breaking European Union law by not doing enough to reduce excess nitrogen from farming and industry.
Dutch farmers have long needed manure quota and it could be sold for roughly the same as it costs to buy dairy or poultry production quota in Canada.
