From 2008 to 2018, rapeseed acreage in Russia more than doubled from 679,800 ha to 1,576,300 ha. The average gross yield of rapeseed in Russia for ten years amounted to 1.1 million tons, with an average yield of 11.7 centners per hectare, AgroVestnik reports.
The growing popularity of crops is due not only to its demand for Russian processors, but also to increasing exports. As of July 19, rapeseed was collected from an area of 68,200 ha, 145,000 tons were threshed at a yield of 21.3 c / ha. Gross harvest of winter and spring rapeseed (in case of favorable weather conditions) is expected not lower than the level of last year, when its harvest was 1.99 million tons in net weight.
