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Oilseed

A crop grown for the oil in its seed, such as soya, sunflower or groundnut

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Plain meaning
A crop grown for the oil in its seed, such as soya, sunflower or groundnut
How to use it
Grow oilseeds where a crusher or feed mill is within trucking distance, and rotate them with maize.
South African benchmark
South African soya gross value of production reached about R2.25 billion (Article 8, 2012/13 baseline).
Country notes
Zimbabwe's GMB paid US$583.01 a tonne for soya and US$670.46 for sunflower in 2025/26.
Go and read
M3-U1, M3-U2, C2 Lesson 2.1
Calculate it
T-M3-03 Yield-to-Income Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A004, LIB-A008, LIB-A009, LIB-A010, LIB-P-Soybean, LIB-P-Sunflower
See also
Crusher, Oilcake or meal, Crop rotation
Oilseeds: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedOilseeds: how the business runsSold bytonnes (t) per hectare1Plant2Grow3Harvest4Deliver to crusher5Oil and oilcakeZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Oilseeds Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M3 Oilseeds.