Romania’s rape seed crop this year is the best in the last 34 years since rape seed has been cultivated at a large scale in the country. The production reached 1.1 million tons, almost double compared to last year, according to Romania’s agriculture minister Daniel Constantin, quoted by Mediafax.

The previous record was in 2010, when production totaled 943,000 tons. In 2013, the rape seed production was 647,811 tons.

The record production was due to larger surfaces cultivated with rape seed, 423,000 hectares compared to 284,000 hectares in 2013, but also due to higher productions per hectare, 2.6 tons this year, compared to 2.2 tons in 2013.

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