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MARKET & PRICES Jul 8, 2026 19 min read
A quote is a number at Pipavav; what a buyer pays is the number at its warehouse door, and the two differ by 15 to 25 percent. Every line between them, worked on a container of flakes and repeated for granules and powder: plant price, origin costs, freight, insurance, duty on the CIF value, clearance, trucking, the importer's own costs, and a calculator to fill in.
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MARKET & PRICES Jun 26, 2026 21 min read
From mid-June to September, Saurashtra sits at 80 to 90 percent humidity, and a product dried to 5 percent moisture wants to be 12. What the monsoon does to the plants, the dry stock, the stored raw onion and the shipping lane, why powder cakes and counts climb in a bad August, what it does to prices from July to October, and how to time and specify purchases around it.
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MARKET & PRICES Jun 3, 2026 20 min read
Every price in the dried-onion trade rests on one number: how many kilograms of fresh onion it takes to make one kilogram of dry. Where the 8 to 1 figure comes from, the dry-matter arithmetic behind it, what moves it between 7 and 10, how a plant measures and manages it, why it explains the price swings, and how to use it to read a quote.
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MARKET & PRICES May 4, 2026 20 min read
The rabi harvest finished in the second week of May and the plants began the step down to two shifts. From Bhavnagar district in May 2026: the last fresh-crop lots, the first read on how much onion went into storage, yard prices firming off the April low, FOB by cut, red and pink at peak, and the summer outlook.
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MARKET & PRICES Apr 1, 2026 20 min read
From the fields, the yard and the plants of Bhavnagar district in the first three weeks of April 2026: the harvest past 70 percent lifted, the best crop quality of the year, dehydration-grade white around 5 rupees at the yard, every certified plant on three shifts, FOB indications down 3 to 5 percent from March and steady, red runs starting, and buyers locking season volume early.
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MARKET & PRICES Mar 4, 2026 21 min read
From the fields, the market yard and the plants of Bhavnagar district in the first three weeks of March 2026: the harvest on schedule, a clean crop with normal yields, yard prices easing from 7 to around 5.5 rupees as arrivals build, certified plants running round the clock, first new-crop flakes at 5 percent moisture, and FOB indications 8 to 10 percent under February.
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MARKET & PRICES Mar 2, 2026 20 min read
India harvests onion three times a year, but only the rabi white onion lifted from late February to May feeds the dehydration plants, and the trade runs on its clock: prices set in April, stock sold through winter, the tightest weeks in February. The three crops, a month-by-month calendar for price and quality, weather and policy risks, storage losses, and when to sample, contract and cover.
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MARKET & PRICES Jan 19, 2026 21 min read
Around 120 dehydration plants within 30 kilometres of a coastal Gujarat town supply most of the dehydrated onion the world imports. How Mahuva became the hub, how its plants, exporters, brokers and laboratories fit together, the white onion belt and its March to May harvest, Pipavav and the road to Europe, and what a buyer in Hamburg should know about the place behind the bag.
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MARKET & PRICES Jan 6, 2026 20 min read
Eight to nine kilos of fresh onion make one kilo of dry product, so the field price times that ratio is most of the bag. The cost stack from plant gate to FOB port with January 2026 figures, the four drivers that move it, the seasonal pattern, premiums by cut and tier, how to read a quote line by line, and a worked landed cost.
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200-500 g per product from a current lot, dispatched by courier with the specification sheet and the sample lot's lab report.
A complete written quotation - specification sheet, price with freight shown separately, and lead time - within one business day.
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