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OILSEEDS Record soya bean harvest forecast for 2023

While 2023 is most likely to be a recordbreaking year for the area planted to soya bean in South Africa, plantings of sunflower and canola are expected to decline due largely to a shortage of seed.

This was according to Petru Fourie,

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