Protecția integrată a florii-soarelui în agricultura convențională și ecologică în condiții de monocultură în anul 2023

Lipids being always used by humans as a sustainable source of energy, they have always been the basic source of calorie consumption. Vegetable oils and especially olive oils could not cover the market demand, being considered not for the lower class. Only from the second half of the 19th century, when the sunflower became cultivated in Europe, it became a source of vegetable oil accessible to all. The cheap alternative to olive oil, and the proof is the names of the first sunflower variety in Romania, "Măslinica". Inexhaustible source of oil and well-being especially of Eastern Europeans. If since ancient times the main export commodity of the Black Sea basin was wheat, today it is sunflower and wheat, satisfying the demand for vegetable oil generates another demand for organic vegetable oils, after we have satiated we want and healthy.