diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ee0a64626..d92383e06 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dask>=2021.11.2
 distributed>=2021.11.2
 pandas>=1.2.0,<1.4.0dev0
 numba>=0.54
-pyarrow>=6.0.1
+pyarrow>=5.0.0
 protobuf>=3.0.0
 tqdm>=4.0
 tensorflow-metadata>=1.2.0