!!!Raps

Rape, oilseed (Brassica napus) and turnip (Brassica rapa) were widely 
grown in Austria before 1870, but by 1937 cultivation of these oil 
plants had been reduced to a mere 80 hectares of farmland. During 
World War II rape (10,919 hectares) and turnip 
(6,594 hectares) were again cultivated on a large scale. When the 
production of edible oil and margarine changed to erucid-acid free 
types ("OO types"), rape gained importance as a raw 
material. In 1993 winter rape was cultivated on 57,307 hectares 
yielding 2.2 tons per hectare, summer rape and turnip were grown 
on 1,783 hectares yielding 2.0 tons per hectare. Total 
production amounted to 132,400 tons of seed or 49,960 tons 
of oil. In a number of small production sites the process of 
interesterification is used to produce "biodiesel" (rape 
methyl ester) from rape oil.


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