Industrial pressing of sunflower oil
Prensado industrial del aceite de girasol
- Date
- c. 1829-1833 · confidence low
- Place
- Alekseyevka, Russia
- Credited to
- Daniil Bokarev
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Russian serf Daniil Bokarev develops a mechanical pressing method for sunflower seeds in the village of Alekseyevka, producing edible oil on an industrial scale.
Sources vary between 1829 and the early 1830s for the exact date of the first large-scale pressing.
What it led to
- Alekseyevka as a world centre of sunflower oil
- Expansion of sunflower cultivation as an oilseed crop in Russia and Ukraine
- Replacement of costlier oils in everyday Russian cooking