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Wim Moerdijk, Monie:
"Onion market completely unpredictable"
"Unclear and completely unpredictable." That's how Wim Moerdijk of onion sorting and packing station Monie describes the current onion market. "Exporters will order a bit extra, farmers see there's an opportunity, and the price goes up quickly. There's a lot of gambling being done by purchasing a few cents more expensively, and then waiting and seeing. I can't judge how the market will evolve at the moment. Quite a few onions are being shipped, and with a weekly export of 17,000 tonnes, we're having normal export figures for the time of year. But all of us together could sort 30,000 tonnes."
"Supplies are mostly limited. Some amount has been purchased, but at a high price. The price of smaller sizes stays around 12 cents, and the mid-sizes around 13/14 cents. For the bigger sizes, Brazil is now in the market again, while two weeks ago it was reported they would stop. It's anyone's guess. If Brazil disappeared, we would have a problem, because then only Western Europe and a bit of Africa would be left, and they've never had a 17,000 tonne export shipped to them," Wim goes on. "The quality of the onions is good, fortunately. Some shipments aren't that good, but you have to watch out for those, and they often end up being shipped to Poland."
