How much rapeseed has been sown in Poland in recent years?

Published 2024년 8월 30일

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The article highlights the significant increase in rapeseed cultivation in Poland over the past two decades, with the acreage more than doubling from the year of highest sown area. The growth was particularly notable in the late 2000s and 2020s, with the acreage surpassing 1 million ha for the first time in 2022-2023. Despite concerns about the current cost-to-crop valuation ratio, the lack of direct alternatives to rapeseed may help explain its continued popularity, especially as other crops like soya, peas, and lupins have also seen increased sowing.

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In the next two seasons, the acreage did not increase, and was even lower. It was only in 2004, coinciding with Poland's accession to EU structures, that more rapeseed was sown. In 2004, the acreage was around 550 000 ha. Then and now This is still far less than how much of this crop is sown in Poland today. 600 000 ha was exceeded only in 2006. And by the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the acreage in Poland was increasing - e.g. in 2009, rapeseed in the country amounted to some 800 000 ha. The years 2009 - 2010 began a kind of stabilization of the acreage. Since then, it was lower than 800 000 ha only once (in 2012). At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, i.e. in 2021, slightly more than 970 000 ha of rapeseed will have been sown in Poland. In 2022 - 2023, the area sown to this crop already exceeded 1 million ha - the first seasons with an acreage higher than 1 million ha. In 2023, the acreage even approached 1.1 million ha. The following season ...

Source: Agroberichtenbuitenland