Rapeseed is an important agricultural crop with a number of properties that ensure its widespread use in the food and chemical industries as a raw material, in animal husbandry as an important element of the animal feed ration, in crop production as an indispensable crop in the formation of crop rotations that ensure soil fertility. and high crop yields. In this study, a study was made of the historical experience associated with the cultivation of this crop. The analysis of the level of development of modern production and processing of rapeseed in Russia, the Siberian Federal District and the Altai Territory was carried out, on the basis of which the prospects associated with the expansion of rapeseed production in an agrarian-oriented region were identified. Based on the analysis of the state of the industry, assessment of the oilseeds market, we consider it expedient to further develop the production and processing of rapeseed crops in the Altai Territory. Being an agrarian-oriented region, the region has all the opportunities for the successful implementation of this activity. Currently, most of the rapeseed produced in the region is exported, because without access to overseas marketplaces, new manufacture will not pay off soon, and selling it on the domestic market is an unrealistic task.