Abstract
ACCORDING to the June issue of the Anglo-Swedish Review, the cultivation of oil-bearing plants in Sweden has developed rapidly. In 1940 the area covered by such plants was only 938 acres, whereas in 1941 it was 21,250 acres, yielding a harvest of 10,000 tons of seed from which 2,700 tons of oil could be produced and 7,000 tons of fodder. This year it is established that the oil plant area is 42,500 or 45,000 acres, out of which 5,000 acres is rape, 32,500 acres white mustard, 1,000 acres poppy seed and 2,500 linseed. The yield will be at least 20,000 tons of seed, from which 6,000 tons of oil can be extracted, representing a little more than one tenth of the normal consumption of margarine in Sweden. It is considered likely that the cultivation of oil plants will be so extended that it will be possible to cover one fourth of the normal requirements of raw material for the manufacture of margarine.
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Oil-bearing Plants in Sweden. Nature 150, 176 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150176c0
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