Inside: Onion Market
What do rosy onion export figures say?
The latest export figures for onions provide insight into the weekly export volume. While the estimate for about four weeks was that this would be around 10.000 tons, the figures show something different.
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The export figure for week 13 is 14.783 tons based on provisional information from GroentenFruit Huis, in collaboration with KCB. Because these are provisional figures, a post of completed information is also added to the total export list every week. This amounted to 13 tonnes for the weeks prior to week 1.366.
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The total volume of onions exported in the 2016-2017 season therefore amounts to 838.234 tons, which corresponds to 21.493 tons per week. Looking at the exported volume of onions in calendar year 2017, this amounts to 231.784 tons. Compared to last year, that volume was 271.800 tons.
African captain
Mauritania topped the list of largest buyers of Dutch onions in week 13. This country purchased 2.153 tons of onions, which brings the total volume of onions purchased to 40.139 tons. Second place was taken by Great Britain, which purchased 2.107 tons of onions. The British are now good for sales of 104.119 tons of onions this season.
Guinea was good for third place with 1.763 tonnes, but surpasses Mauritania with 45.344 tonnes in terms of total purchase this season. Malaysia ranked fourth with 1.074 tonnes, bringing the total exported volume to 54.862 tonnes.
