Opportunities for increasing the production of vegetable oils in Black Sea region

Abstract

Abstract Due to changes in the climate both on the planet as a whole and in many regions, in particular in Black Sea region, there is an urgent need to search for the rational use of available environmental resources to form the maximum possible economically useful products. The biopotential of the republic allows cultivating drought-resistant oilseeds, including sunflower. After the commissioning of an oil plant in Black Sea region, with a capacity of up to 35 thousand tons of products per year, the production of the corresponding volume of oil seeds becomes especially relevant. To achieve the required amount of oilseed raw materials and stable provision of the population of the republic with sunflower oil, a mechanism of organizational and economic interaction of producers of raw materials and its processors, the introduction of adaptive hybrids and varieties of sunflower, as well as the development of adaptive technology for their cultivation are necessary. The research held in 2017-2019 at the Research Institute of Agriculture will help to solve the problems posed by introducing scientifically based technology for the cultivation of sunflower domestic selection on the peninsula. It has been established that the maximum harvest of sunflower oil (more than 0.5 t/ha) when cultivating the early ripe Avangard hybrid will be obtained by sowing in the first ten days of April with a plant density of 40K pcs/ha.