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Cyclone threatens 100,000 tons of onion exports from Myanmar

Fresh Onion
Vegetables
Myanmar [Burma]
Published May 19, 2023

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Cyclone Mocha, one of the strongest to hit the Bay of Bengal in recent years, hit Bangladesh and Myanmar a few days ago. Last Sunday, Myanmar was hit by this Category 5 cyclone, with winds reaching 209 km/h and causing landslides and flooding in several parts of the country. It is still too early to give an accurate assessment of the damage, but the agricultural sector has suffered a lot of damage. EastFruit writes about this with reference to Fructidor.com.

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See also: Onion prices - what is happening in Central Asia and Eastern Europe? In Myanmar, onion production is estimated at 1 million tons per year. A few weeks ago, the Department of Commerce announced that the country exported 94,000 tons of onions and earned $41.39 million from April 2022 to February 2023. Stressing that the goal for the fiscal year 2023-24 is to export 100,000 ...
Source: Eastfruit
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