Direct seeding, sets and transplants can be used to establish onions. Direct seeding, using precision planters, is the preferred system for larger plantings. Transplants are less popular because of the high labour cost. Therefore, although expensive, planting sets can be useful for extending the harvesting season. The information given in…
The current drought in South Africa’s (SA) Western Cape Province, as well as less hectares planted in the Northern Cape Province have resulted in lower volumes of onions at fresh produce markets, which has nearly doubled prices. The average onion price for all classes, grades and markets reached R5.22/kg on…
Question: I would like to start growing onions. Do you have any advice? If dried correctly, onions can be stored after harvest until needed or marketed at a time when prices favour the grower. Onions (Allium cepa L.) have been used as food for centuries. They are an important vegetable…
The youngest son to be born into a farming family in Mazabuka in the Southern Province, Stanford Mweemba (24) is building on the family legacy and taking the farm a level up into the commercial sector. Stanford's two older brothers were not keen on farming and Stanford says his father…
