date:Oct 31, 2022
ghs, as much as triple last year: around R10 per kilogram, because much fewer onions were planted.
It was a difficult onion season last year, with weak prices, plus all manner of input costs fertilizer, fuel, labour, transport and packaging have sharply increased, coupled with water constraints disease pressure in certain areas, and altogether in some areas 20% to 30% fewer onions were planted, and now the market has half the usual volumes.
The market is transitioning at the moment from oni