Short workweek slows onion trade

It is not going very smoothly on the onion market. That applies to trade at the grower level as well as to exports. Differences in quality are partly responsible for this. The fact that we now have a week in which we had King's Day in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe has May 1 does not create extra activity. Worse still, several sorters and exporters report that it is too quiet for the good. Read more about export demand and price formation in onions