Inside: Onion Market
Despite the downturn, exports remain stable
Until now, the onion export figures of 2017 have steadily increased. What do the export figures of week 35 do? Subscribe to 'Onion Market'.
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Choose the subscription that suits youWeek 35 has a provisional export figure of 22.460 tons. This is 5,6% less than the export figure of 1 week earlier. For the first there is a small decline in the export figures, compared to 1 week earlier. Only record week 32 is an exception to this, due to the increasing demand for the Tabaski sacrificial feast.
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Relapse not shocking
Still, the decline is not shocking. From week 31, the export figures are close to each other. While week 31 was good for 21.106 tons of onions, last week 23.800 tons of onions were exported.
Week 33 and week 35 were in between. With a range of 11%, the onion export is stable. By way of comparison, in 2016 this figure was 31.9%.
New frontrunner
Where Senegal imported the most Dutch onions in the previous weeks, week 35 has a new leader. Ivory Coast is the largest buyer of Dutch onions with 4.374 tons. Senegal remains on track with 4.300 tons of onions. That is a decrease of 30,6% compared to week 34.
Guinea is in 3rd place with 2.039 tons, followed by Great Britain in 4th place with 1.693 tons. Mali is in fifth place with 1.451 tons.
Onion exports are lower than a week earlier for the first time.