As the product takes 3-4 months to mature after it has been transplanted, producers can achieve three productive cycles on the same land in just one year .
Harvesting starts when the diameter reaches 2-3 cm and, after cleaning the produce, the leaves are cut 15 cm above the white part.
Spring onions are then washed and packed in 30x50 plastic crates or, more rarely, into perforated nylon bags containing 5/10 kg of produce.
The Lusia fresh produce market sells around 2,000 spring onions per year, and the produce is getting increasingly popular.
Various companies in the area have specialised in this type of production, encouraged by good returns and yields.
Apart from March and April 2014, when quotations were lower than 40 cents/kg, the other months sales prices hovered between 50 and 80 cents/kg.
This positive trend and increasing demand will definitely lead to more crops being planted, especially considering how poorly other products did in 2014.