The year 2021 seems to be another absolute top year for Dutch onions, reports Holland Onions. The expectations of the Dutch export umbrella organization with regard to the export stock, based on the harvest expectations, appear to be heading towards 1.3 million tons. After the previous season in which the epic export limit of 1.2 million tons was eventually easily passed, this export season has also reached full swing early, albeit that the demand is less broad than the previous season.
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The export counter for this season is already well past half a million tons after the first 18 weeks. In the previous season, 531,000 tons were sold abroad to 129 countries, compared to 486,000 tons in the previous season over the same period. The trend of sustainable export growth of an average of 4% per year thus remains fully in line with global production growth. A point of attention is that elsewhere the onion harvest is also strong, which makes this season extra exciting. Within Europe, for example, 7.4 million tons of onions were harvested, which is 700,000 tons more than the previous season, which was very lean with 6.7 million tons. Record yieldAccording to the preliminary harvest estimates, the gross yield of the onion fields this season is approximately 1.6 million tons. That is almost 20% more than last season came from the country. Seed onions were grown on 30.1 thousand hectares this season. That is more than 10% more than the previous season. All in all, it is ...
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