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BUYING GUIDES Mar 19, 2026 20 min read
The failures in this trade are predictable and every one is visible before the order. Twenty-five checks in six groups, identity, certification, specification, testing, commercial terms and communication, each with what to ask and what a good or bad answer looks like, plus the order to run them in, a scoring sheet, and how the list changes for a plant, an exporter or a trader.
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IMPORT & LOGISTICS Feb 16, 2026 20 min read
LCL costs two to four times more per kilogram and is right up to about six pallets; a container is cheaper, cleaner and a week faster from about eight. How each mode works, why onion is charged by volume, all-in costs from one pallet to a 40 foot box, what moves the crossover, transit and routing, shared-container risks, stuffing plans by cut, documents and demurrage.
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QUALITY & COMPLIANCE Feb 5, 2026 21 min read
"BRC certified" on a listing can mean a certified plant, an exporter who buys from one sometimes, or a company that once saw a certificate. What the BRCGS standard audits in a dehydration plant, grades and unannounced audits, verifying a certificate in five minutes, reading the scope, how many Mahuva plants hold it, BRCGS against IFS for German buyers, and what it means when bags travel through an exporter.
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BUYING GUIDES Jan 23, 2026 21 min read
A supplier's minimum tells you more about the supplier than about the onion. What a pallet, an LCL shipment and a container hold for each cut, why plants want containers and exporters accept pallets, landed cost per kilo from one pallet to a 40 foot box, mixed pallets, samples, sizing a first order, and when a European stockist is the better answer.
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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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IMPORT & LOGISTICS Jan 2, 2026 21 min read
Ten decisions in the right order take a food business from wanting Indian prices to a pallet or container on its own floor: the one-page spec, the questions that expose a trader, sampling in your own process, Incoterms, price locks and payment terms, Pipavav to Hamburg, the EU document set and duty, and a worked landed cost per kilo.
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BUYING GUIDES Jan 1, 2026 20 min read
Everything a food manufacturer or importer needs before the first order of dehydrated onion: the five cuts in millimetres, the specification numbers a lab can verify, microbiology tiers, what a kilo costs in 2026 and why it moves, container loads, documents for the EU, and the five questions that separate a plant-backed exporter from a middleman.
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Product, cut size, quantity, destination port - that's all we need to start. You'll receive a written quotation with full specifications from a dehydrated onion exporter, not a one-line price.
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Samples
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.
The complete specification sheet as a PDF - cut size and sieve range, moisture, microbiology tiers, packing options and container loads - sent to your e-mail within one business day.
Thank you - your sample request is in. You'll have our written reply with dispatch details within one business day, and the parcel ships by courier with the specification sheet and the lot's lab report.
Thank you - your inquiry is in. You'll have a complete written quotation - specification sheet, price with freight shown separately, and lead time - within one business day.
Thank you - the specification sheet is on its way. You'll have the PDF in your inbox within one business day.
