Italian onion season starts at June

Onion producers in Italy are getting ready for the next season in June. Export-oriented sales will be focused on the window of opportunity made in June and July. Usually, these two months are the months in which Italy gains its largest market share. In this brief period, the only competitor in the market in Spain, but no other country in the vicinity of Europe could offer a new crop. Sales are forecasted to diminish sensibly with the beginning of August, in which the market will be led by northern European countries and the Netherlands above all. The only market segment forecasted to keep firm in August is represented by extra small calibers-onion.