Sunflower harvesting in Belarus; why is it treading on the heels of rapeseed and is it profitable to do it?

Not just corn, sugar beets and potatoes. Sunflowers are also being harvested from the fields. It is not very difficult to care for and feels great on Belarusian fields. As it once happened with rapeseed, farmers were encouraged to start growing seeds by the fashion for “their own”. And in some farms, sunflower is already on the heels of rapeseed. Where do they rely on oilseeds and is it profitable to engage in them in Belarus? Sunflower seeds fly noisily into the back of the car - sunflowers are being harvested at the Vasilishki farm near Shchuchin. A crop previously inaccessible to local latitudes now grows well on Grodno lands. And the harvest is excellent, now even higher than last year – up to 35 c/ha. The seeds turned out to be of high quality and require almost no drying. Another week and the entire crop will be harvested from the field. Sunflowers have been grown in Vasilishki for the fifth season. If we started with 50 hectares, then today there are 250. This is a third of ...