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Loose onion flakes beside caked flakes, a humidity card, a desiccant sachet and a kraft sack on a plain backdrop

MARKET & PRICES Jun 26, 2026 21 min read

Monsoon and Dehydrated Onion: Humidity, Storage Risk and Buying Timing

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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Eight fresh white onions on one side of a balance scale and a small heap of dried onion flakes on the other

MARKET & PRICES Jun 3, 2026 20 min read

8 to 1: The Fresh-to-Dry Yield Ratio Behind Every Dehydrated Onion Price

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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Bamboo tray of stored white onions with sprouted rejects set apart and a bowl of onion flakes on a plain backdrop

MARKET & PRICES May 4, 2026 20 min read

Mahuva Ground Report, May 2026: Season Close, Stock Building and Summer Prices

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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Heap of fresh white onions, a kraft sack, a bowl of flakes and a blank paper ticket on a plain backdrop

MARKET & PRICES Apr 1, 2026 20 min read

Mahuva Ground Report, April 2026: Peak-Season Processing and Price Direction

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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Wooden crate of fresh white onions, a jute sack, a brass hand scale and a bowl of dehydrated onion flakes on a plain backdrop

MARKET & PRICES Mar 4, 2026 21 min read

Mahuva Ground Report, March 2026: New-Crop Arrivals, Yields and Early Prices

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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Freshly lifted white onions with green tops beside a paper calendar and a bowl of dehydrated onion flakes on a plain backdrop

MARKET & PRICES Mar 2, 2026 20 min read

The Indian Onion Harvest Calendar and What It Means for Dehydrated Onion Buyers

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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Fresh white onions spilling from a jute sack beside a kraft sack and a bowl of dehydrated onion flakes on a plain backdrop

MARKET & PRICES Jan 19, 2026 21 min read

Mahuva, Gujarat: Inside India's Onion Dehydration Hub

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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