In its first estimate of the global rapeseed planted area for the 2023/24 marketing season the International Grains Council (IGC) forecasts an area of 40.2M ha, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) reported.
The estimate is 1.5% below the current season’s record area and would be the second largest rapeseed area recorded, significantly higher than the long-term average.
Rapeseed production in Australia, China and India is expected to decrease, according to Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft, while Canada’s rapeseed area is set to remain unchanged from the previous year at 8.6M ha.
According to the IGC’s first estimates, which it said involved a lot of uncertainty, the EU-27 rapeseed planted area for the 2023/24 marketing season was increased to 6M ha, which would be an increase of 1.7% compared to the previous year.
The IGC expected the rapeseed planted area to increase in France and Germany and surveys conducted among producers forecast an expansion of the UK rapeseed planted area by 14% compared to the previous year.
In Ukraine the area planted to rapeseed was expected to expand 8.3% to 1.3M ha, while Russia’s area was expected to remain at the previous year’s area of 2.3M ha.
