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Rapeseed: A significant increase in rapeseed crop in Ukraine in 2017

February 28, 2018 at 9:14 AM , Balkan Commodities Ltd.
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KIEV: While Ukraine registered a decline in soybean and sunflower seeds production in 2017/18, the rapeseed crop increased by 83%, amounting 2,2 million MT. In the agricultural year 2016/17 the harvested crop amounted to 1,2 million MT. Romania competes with Ukraine for rape seed market in the EU.

 Increased volumes of rapeseed crop in 2017:

The harvest in Ukraine ended on December 1, 2017, according to the report of the Ministry of agrarian policy and food. Rapeseed crop amounted to 2.2 million MT.

The Ministry team does not specify what the reason is for this increase – whether the increased areas sown with the oilseed crop or due to increased yields. But the director of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics" Academician Yuriy Lupenko asserts that the rapeseed production is increased due to an increase in the area

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