Angara region in Russia to reduce rapeseed area by 7.5 percent in 2023 due to export ban
Canola Seed & Rapeseed
Russia
Published Mar 30, 2023
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Agrarians of the Irkutsk region, where the gross harvest of rapeseed has grown 7.6 times over the past five years, plan to reduce the area under this crop by 7.5% in 2023, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the region Natalya Zhilkina told TASS on Thursday. This is due to the ban on the export of rapeseed introduced in Russia.
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"It is planned to place rapeseed on an area of 72.4 thousand hectares, which will be 92.5% compared to the level of 2022," the deputy minister said. In general, it is planned to allocate 80 thousand hectares for industrial crops in the region in 2023, which is 8% less than in 2022. At the same time, the harvest of oilseeds, which are considered high-margin crops, is expected to be at the level of last year - 139.6 thousand tons. Previously, the agrarians of the region annually significantly increased the area under oilseeds, and the volume of the crop also increased manifold. For example, in 2022, the production of these crops increased by 1.5 times compared to 2021 and amounted to 140 thousand tons. Part of the oilseeds is processed in the region - oil, mayonnaise, margarine are produced from rapeseed, and the cake is fed to livestock. The capacities for processing these crops in the region are being increased. Part ...
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