Onions are cheaper to destroy than to harvest: farmers in Khmelnytskyi are leaving the crop in the field

Some farms in Khmelnytskyi, which grow vegetables, have decided not to harvest onions this year, leaving them in the field, because the purchase price is currently below the cost of production. This is reported by Suspilne.Khmelnytskyi, citing the head of the department of the regional administration for the development of agro-industrial production and land resources, Wanda Serdiuk. Indeed, onion prices are half of what they were last year. As the official notes, some areas are being plowed over without even being harvested. "This year, the area under this crop has increased, because in previous years, when the price was high and we felt a certain shortage of onions, producers were 'scared' and planted a lot of it this year," says Wanda Serdiuk. She adds that in the Khmelnytskyi region, agricultural enterprises allocated 800 hectares for vegetable crops in the 2025 season, of which 40% were for onions. Overall, the area under the crop has increased by over 100 hectares. Also ...