Russia: Pskov region will double its rapeseed harvest in 2023

Next year, agricultural producers of the Pskov region will double the gross harvest of rapeseed - up to 50 thousand tons -, and the region will partially solve the problems with the development of abandoned and unused lands. Nikolai Romanov, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and State Technical Supervision of the Pskov Region, told TASS about this. “For our region, the production of rapeseed is the main priority, as it allows us to strengthen both the regional economy and the entire agro-industrial complex as a whole,” the source says. “We have been able to achieve unprecedented results in attracting investors who are engaged in rapeseed. Such farms will appear in almost every district of the region in 2023, and as a result, the volume of rapeseed harvest will double, up to 50,000 tons, which is the highest figure in the history of the Pskov region.” Romanov also noted that rapeseed makes it ...