Onion export must maintain a high pace in the Netherlands

Chairman Gijsbrecht Gunter of the Holland Onion Association is very pleased with the onion export so far. On the website of the umbrella organization for the Dutch onion trade, he writes that 2021 appears to be another peak year with high export volumes. He points out that the high export rate is also necessary because of this year's large onion harvest. On the basis of the gross yield of 1.6 million tons of onions in the preliminary harvest estimate of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Gunter calculates with an export stock in the Netherlands of about 1.3 million tons of field crop onions, which must be included in the export figures. come. That is 100,000 tons more than last year's export record, he says. 'If we assume that the export counter will be 750,000 tons around the turn of the year, we still need to export 550,000 tons in the second half of the season. That is a ratio of 58 percent in the first half to 42 percent in the second half. Last season, the distribution was ...