In General for the 2016/17 season production of canola oil amounted to 237 thousand tons, which is 18.2% less than the same period last season (289,7 thousand tons).

In March 2017, Russia produced 26.7 thousand tons of rapeseed oil as opposed to 21.9 thousand tons in February 2017 and 24.4 thousand tons in March 2016.

Despite the fact that exports of rapeseed in the current season are still ahead of last year, the last two months there has been intensification of machines and reduce the backlog from last year.

On expectations of analysts UkrAgroConsult, in General, for the current season the production of rapeseed oil will not be below 300 thousand tons.

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