Production of honey - Import export

These are cereal crops related to pseudograin, the seeds work fine as a human food and partly to animal feed. Seeds are readily eaten by songbirds. Buckwheat introduced into the culture more than 5 thousand years ago. Buckwheat is the most important honey plant for many regions of Russia with light sandy loam soil. The feed base of beekeeping and honey production there largely depends on the state of buckwheatgrowing. In favorable years, up to 80 kg of honey is obtained from 1 hectare of crops in areas with normal moisture (in arid regions, honey collection from buckwheat is extremely unstable). As a crosspollinated, mainly entomophilous plant (pollinated by insects), buckwheat requires at least 2–2.5 bee families per hectare, which also provides up to 70% of seed production. Buckwheat flowers give a lot of nectar and greenishyellow pollen.

Oil made from seeds is used for food and technical purposes, and fatfree seeds are used to make the best varieties of table mustard and in medicine for the production of mustard plasters. Black mustard has good honey properties, honey productivity is 260 kg / ha. This plant is also used in soap making. Black mustard seeds are used to make Dijon mustard. In folk medicine, mustard seeds were widely used as a form of powder or mustard flour inside as a means of increasing appetite.