A new record for soybean cultivation area in Poland

Nowy rekord powierzchni uprawy soi w Polsce

Will soy win against other legumes?

All legumes are highly desirable in crop rotation. These species improve the properties of the soil, enrich it with "free" nitrogen, and have a positive effect on the balance of organic matter in the soil.

In our country, soybean is systematically gaining an advantage over other large-seeded legume species. The popularization of its cultivation is facilitated by, among others, high feed value and increasingly wider possibilities of use for human food purposes. Year by year, there are more and more solutions for effective chemical protection of soybeans and better varieties, which improves the facilities for effective cultivation of this species. At this point, it is worth noting that soybean, although "capricious", in a favorable season is able to produce a high yield of seeds, for which you can get a relatively high price in purchasing stores.

Of course, growing soybeans still has its challenges, but each year farmers become more familiar with its agrotechnics. Soybean is no longer a secret, and the more solutions are identified, the lower the risk, which is why the number of new growers increases. At the same time, the group of loyal soybean producers is strengthening; on their farms, soybean is an integral part of crop rotation.

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A sharp increase in soybean acreage in Poland in 2024.

According to data from the ARiMR crop register based on applications for direct payments, in 2024 there was an almost double jump in the area of soybean cultivation in Poland compared to the previous season. In 2024, Polish farmers sowed soybean on as many as 79,828.20 hectares. This is a new record for the cultivation area of this species this year. The previous record was broken in 2022, when soybean acreage reached over 47,000. hectares. In 2023, this result decreased slightly, and in 2024 it almost doubled.

By 2022, soybean in Poland was cultivated on approx. 20-25 thousand hectares. From 2020 to 2024, the largest increase in soybean acreage was recorded in the Podkarpackie, Lublin and Lesser Poland voivodeships. One voivodeship where the area under cultivation of this species has decreased in recent seasons is the voivodeship. Lubuskie. Currently, soybean is ranked third among the most frequently cultivated legume species in Poland, after blue lupine and field pea.