Summing up the agricultural results of the past year, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Stavropol proudly noted that his wards successfully revive the mass cultivation of mustard and the production of food and medicine from it.

“This year, the farmers of our region reaped the fruits of their hard work - they managed to collect four thousand tons of mustard seed,” said Andrei Oleinikov, who heads the Ministry of Agriculture. “To some, these figures may not seem so impressive, but no other region of Russia can boast even remotely a similar result.”

The yield of mustard in the region was 4.9 centners per hectare. Workers of farms "Rainbow", "Slavyanka", "Rocket", "Don" and others cultivated culture. The crop has about forty varieties of mustard seeds.

The harvest of 2018 more than covered the costs of growing, and now the farmers plan to sell mustard at a price of twenty two and a half thousand rubles per ton. Experts say that almost the entire harvest of this season will go to the production of mustard oil.