Export to Malaysia gets underway

The provisional export figures for week 37 amount to 25.023 tons of onions. This is the strongest decline of this season after week 32. In week 37, almost 15% more onions crossed the border than 1 week earlier. A total of 203.013 tons of onions have already been exported this season.

What is Senegal doing?
Week 37 is the second full week of September. Due to Senegal's import quota, only 1 tons of onions may be exported to the African country this year in the period from September 1 to December 2017, 65.000. By adding together the provisional export figures from week 36 and week 37, the contours of exports to Senegal become clearer.

The provisional export figures from week 37 indicate that Senegal is still the largest buyer, with 5.876 tons of onions. In week 36 this number was 4.963 tons of onions, which means that 2 tons of onions were exported to Senegal during the first 10.839 weeks of September.

If these figures were representative of the entire import quota, 70.450 tons of onions would be exported to Senegal. This is 5.450 tonnes above the quota and so there will be a decline in exports to Senegal in the coming weeks.

Malaysia
After Senegal, Ivory Coast purchases the most Dutch onions with 4.284 tons. Exports to Malaysia are starting to increase. With 2.097 tons of onions, they are the third importing country of Dutch onions. Exports to Malaysia increase step by step from week 31, culminating in the provisional export figures of week 37. They show a doubling of the previous week.The export figures of onions up to and including week 37 (2017).