South African onions’ winning streak continues
The record onion prices for the previous six months is a just recompense for South African farmers after a couple of difficult years.
Eighteen months ago, onion prices were in the doldrums, jeopardizing the sector in the face of surging input costs plus power cuts.
“If we didn’t have these high prices this year, even more guys would’ve stopped planting onions,”
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