Growing demand and great planting capacity of canola in Paraguay

Within the framework of a training on the care and news of Canola in Paraguay, the agronomist Nilson Osterlein, responsible for research and technical advice to producers of the CW Trading firm, gave a technical talk aimed at producers who attended the expo-fair Agroshow Copronar and also spoke with Valor Agro about the scope of this product in agriculture. The specialist mentioned that canola brings very interesting benefits to the agricultural system in Paraguay, and that in this regard, the country should take advantage of the high demand for this product worldwide. On this point, he stressed that Paraguay has the possibility of growing in the canola area since 30% of the soybean area is available here to sow this product if a sustainable rotation system is targeted. "We would have approximately 1 million hectares to plant canola," he said. In addition, he maintained that there will be a significant increase in the canola planting area given that there is a growing demand for ...