“…The total sunflower oil extracted with n-hexane is comparable with the extracted oil reported by Hartman, Antoniassi, and Freitas (1999) who obtained 54.80% total oil with sunflower seed obtained from Brazil. However, this value is much higher as compared to the 45.1%, 47.83-53.41% and 52% yield reported by Boutin et al (2011), Hartman et al (1999 and Salgin et al (2006) respectively. This type of variation in the total oil content may be due to geographical conditions such as seasonal temperature, nutrients and water availability, soil properties (Kemper, 2005).…”