Inside: Onion Market
British onion sales record a record this season
The weekly export figures of onions shine a new light on the sales of Dutch onions. Should we be gloomy about the sale of onions, or can we, given the circumstances, be proud of it? Judge for yourself when reading the export figures below.
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The provisional figures show that in week 14 there was an onion export of 10.548 tons. As is known, almost every week there is a post containing information from the previous export weeks. This information resulted in an export quantity of 1.677 tons.
All this together results in a seasonal export figure of 850.460 tons. Last season that was 885.141 tons, an increase of 34.681 tons. If we convert this per week, it amounts to 21.261 tons. If only the export weeks of calendar year 2017 are taken into account, the export figure is 244.010 tonnes. This quantity was 289.216 tons last year, a plus of 45.206 tons.
British record
Great Britain joined the export bandwagon in week 14 with a purchase of 1.891 tons of onions. This brings the total British purchase this season to 106.574 tonnes, a record. Second place was taken in week 14 by Malaysia, which purchased 1.193 tons of onions, bringing the total quantity of onions purchased this season to 56.055 tons.
Mauritania and Guinea are in third and fourth place with a purchase of 973 tons and 972 tons of onions respectively. Mauritania is therefore responsible for the purchase of 41.112 tons of onions this season and Guinea of 46.316 tons. Israel was in 14th place in week 5 with an import of 669 tons of Dutch onions. In total, the Israelis imported 2016 tons of onions from the Netherlands in the 2017-7.095 season.
