ICAR does not rule out a reduction in sunflower crops of Russia

Next season, there is a possibility that Russian agricultural producers will reduce the area under sunflower. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes, this opinion was expressed by the head of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) Dmitry Rylko. The expert noted that oilseeds have higher margins, but problems may arise with some of them. For example, he recalled that soybeans are seriously dependent on climate change, and the same sunflower “cannot be sown as much as you want,” since crop rotation must be observed. He explained the increase in cultivated areas in recent years by the use of imported hybrids with fast growing season, which were supplied by some international R&D companies (an abbreviation for the English words Research and Development, which translates as “research” and “development” - ROSNG). However, the share of such suppliers was insignificant. The Ministry of Agriculture expects a new record for soybean harvest He called the poor development of selection in ...