Brazil: Largest onion crop in recent years in Santa Catarina should result in record production value

The onion crop in Santa Catarina is in the commercialization phase and with good news for farmers. The production of the 2022/23 crop reached 551 thousand tons of the vegetable, the highest in the last six years. With the good prices received compared to the last harvest, the expectation is that the total production value exceeds R$ 1 billion, which is a record for the State. One of the reasons for the good harvest was productivity, which exceeded 31,000 kilograms per hectare, the best since 2012/13. For comparison purposes, the productivity of the 2021/2022 harvest was approximately 28,000 kg per hectare. According to data available at the Agro Catarinense Observatory, the planted area in the current harvest was 17.6 thousand hectares, compared to 17.5 in the previous harvest. That is, while the planted area increased by around 0.6%, productivity increased by approximately 11%. Climate conditions According to Jurandi, good production was achieved, especially due to favorable ...