In April-May, the volume of onion exports from Uzbekistan grew for the fourth year in a row and has reached a record high over the past five years this year. According to official statistics, Uzbekistan exported 117 500 tons of onions in April-May 2022, which was a continuation of the growing trend in the volume of onion exports in this period for the fourth year in a row.
As for the geography of exports, except for single deliveries of less than 20 tons, the entire export volume falls on 5 countries: about 99.5% was shipped to the markets of four countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Belarus and about 500 tons were delivered to Ukraine (0.4%).
The first wholesale batches of onions of the new crop became available on the markets of Uzbekistan as early as late March – early April, but onions of export quality were not available on the domestic market. Onion producers in the southern regions of Uzbekistan have started forming large batches of a new crop for export in the second decade of April.
Source: east-fruit.com