Organic sunflower in the top of the most profitable crops in Switzerland

While conventionally grown sunflower has lost its market share, organic sunflower is gaining acreage due to demand for oil Jonas Ingold talks about this in an article on the portal www.lid.ch. “Cultivation of traditional sunflower has recently declined due to high demand for rapeseed. Another thing is in organic farming, where sunflowers thrive. In Switzerland, in the early 2010s, sunflower fields were getting smaller, partly due to competition from rapeseed. Then came the turning point: from 2011 to 2019, the cultivated area increased from 3,323 to 5,903 ha. The reasons for this were higher subsidies from the Swiss Grain Growers Association (SGPV) pool of oilseed producers, as well as the federal government's contribution to improving the quality of the agricultural landscape. Then another crop came into play: palm trees. Criticism of imported palm oil has intensified, and discussions about a free trade agreement with Indonesia have intensified. Since then, many companies have ...