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FAS/Managua projects marketing year 2024/25 peanut production to rebound to a record high of 230,000 metric tons on sustained high area planted and improved growing conditions following a damaging El Niño cycle in 2023/24.

FAS/Managua projects marketing year 2023/24 Nicaraguan peanut production to return to historic high levels, near 200,000 metric tons on an in-shell basis, as deteriorating political conditions and rising economic instability improve the risk-reward calculations of peanuts relative to longer-term investments in sugar or cattle.

FAS/Managua expects 2022 peanut and oil production to remain flat from the previous year, with the vast majority of peanuts and virtually all peanut oil exported overseas.

For Marketing Year (MY) 2020/2021, Nicaragua's peanut production reached over 194,000 metric tons (mt), which is a 21 percent increase compared to the previous cycle

Nicaragua peanut production fell 11 percent in marketing year (MY) 2019/2020 dropping to 158,000 metric tons (MT).

Peanut production fell 14 percent in marketing year (MY) 2018/2019.

In MY 2017/2018, palm oil production increased 23 percent due to new-planted areas starting to bear fruit.

In marketing year (MY) 2018/19 (July-June), Polish rapeseed production will drop to 2 million metric tons (MMT), a 26 percent decrease from MY2017/18.

Total EU oilseeds area and production in MY 2018/19 is forecast slightly upward due to increasing acreage of all three major oilseeds (rapeseed, soybean and sunflower).

The major source of oil in Nicaragua is African Palm. Palm plantations have more than doubled since 2011.

It is estimated that in MY 2017/2018 (July-June) rapeseed planted will amount to 920,000 hectares, an 11 percent increase in comparison to the previous year due to good prices for rapeseed....

Total production of rapeseed in MY 2017/18 is forecast to increase by 13 percent to 290,000 MT in comparison to MY 2016/2017.