Editing Amur Oblast (section)

===Agriculture===
The Amur Region is the primary producer of [[soybean]] in Russia. By 1940, 65 thousand hectares of land in Amur had been cultivated with soybeans, and by 1972 soybean made up 592 thousand hectares of land in Amur, compared to 650 thousand hectares of soybean crops in the whole of the USSR. During the Soviet period, this made up a significant proportion of the economy of Far Eastern Russia.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boiarskaia |first1=A I |last2=Hasegawa |first2=H |last3=Boiarskii |first3=B S |last4=Lyude |first4=A V |title=History of development of Soybean Production in the Amur Region and Far East District in the USSR |journal=IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |date=2 September 2020 |volume=548 |issue=2 |pages=022079 |doi=10.1088/1755-1315/548/2/022079 |bibcode=2020E&ES..548b2079B |issn=1755-1315|doi-access=free }}</ref> By 2019, the Amur Region's share of Russian soybean production had declined to 28 percent due to increased cultivation of soybean in other regions, though it still remains Russia's largest soybean producer.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Selikhova |first1=O A |last2=Tikhonchuk |first2=P V |title=Problems of rational varietal placement of soybean in the Amur region |journal=IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |date=5 August 2020 |volume=547 |issue=1 |pages=012033 |doi=10.1088/1755-1315/547/1/012033|bibcode=2020E&ES..547a2033S |doi-access=free }}</ref> The region in 2019 produced approximately 1 million tonnes of soybean, many of which are exported to neighboring China. While in the past the harvested soybean was shipped west, in recent years due to increased Chinese demands multiple [[soybean oil]] plants have opened in the region.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kurmanaev |first1=Thomas Grove and Anatoly |title=A Surprise Winner From the U.S.-China Trade Spat: Russian Soybean Farmers |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-exploits-u-s-china-trade-tensions-to-sell-more-soybeans-11550745001 |access-date=23 December 2020 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=21 February 2019}}</ref> In 2019, Chinese companies owned or leased some 100 thousand hectares out of the 1.3 million hectares of farmland.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Chinese farmers have crossed border into Russia's Far East |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50185006 |access-date=23 December 2020 |work=BBC News |date=1 November 2019}}</ref>