• How did sunflower maintain its competitiveness on Oilseeds markets?
  • Sunflower succeeded in maintaining its competitiveness on oilseeds markets in the previous decades, through continuous innovation in genetics, production and markets and a growing segmentation.
  • What is the share of oilseeds in the world?
  • On the period 1975¨C2019, the global oilseeds production doubled every 20?years, and sunflower maintained a relatively constant share in the global oilseeds production, between 7 and 10% of the total, presently 9%. But in the same time, soybean share progressed from 48 to 62% of the total, and rapeseed from 6 to 12%.
  • Does sunflower oil affect biodiesel prices?
  • Sunflower oil is not directly involved in biodiesel, but most economists reach the conclusion that the emergence of biofuels made energy prices a driver of long-run agricultural price levels and that instability in energy markets is transferred to food markets ( Serra and Zilberman, 2013 ).
  • Is sunflower oil cheaper than rapeseed oil?
  • The last 3?years show a lasting inversion of this tendency, the sunflower oil FOB NW Europe being 41 to 48?US$/ton cheaper than soybean oil and 104 to 185?US$ cheaper than rapeseed oil (yearly average, October to September, source Oil World, 2019 ). It kept a premium between 30 and 130?US$ compared to palm oil.
  • Which countries import sunflower oil?
  • 75% of sunflower oil imports are bought by 8?countries (see Tab. 2 ). EU, CIS (mainly Ukraine and Russia) and Turkey are also exporters. The European Union is net importer of approx. 0.9?MnT /year; CIS is net exporter of 7.7?MnT.
  • Is sunflower oil a premium oil?
  • The average level of vegetable oils markets will not depend on sunflower, but sunflower oil keeps specific advantages regarding nutritional quality and technological properties which should allow it to maintain its position among premium oils.