Spain's Aragon doubled in 2022 the area devoted to sunflower

Published Mar 1, 2023

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A report by the Aragonese Network of Extensive Crops and Legumes has highlighted a significant increase in the cultivation of sunflower crops in Aragon and Spain in 2022. The area dedicated to sunflower cultivation rose to 26,500 hectares from 13,626 hectares, largely due to second plantings. Miguel Gutiérrez, a expert at the Aragón Agri-Food Transformation Center, explains that this surge is attributed to farmers' need to offset fixed expenses, as they opt for alternative crops when they cannot grow corn. In Aragon alone, the sunflower area for second planting grew to 7,799 hectares from 2,264 hectares, accounting for 33% of the total sunflower cultivation in the region.

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This is reflected in the report on summer crops presented by the Aragonese Network of Extensive Crops and Legumes. In 2022 it went from 13,626 hectares dedicated to sunflower to 26,500. The increase in area occurred both in Aragon and in Spain as a whole. Sunflower is the main oilseed grown in this country, followed by rapeseed. Miguel Gutiérrez, head of herbaceous crops at the Aragón Agri-Food Transformation Center, explains that “farmers have a series of fixed expenses that they have to face and, therefore, second plantings are important; this has meant that, if ...

Source: Diario del Campo