Despite the smaller harvest, there’s no reason to panic. On the contrary. “In the Netherlands, we have onions on the shelves throughout the year. We won’t have a shortage on the shelves.”
Abroad, however, people will definitely notice that 2018 was a bad year for the harvest. “Normally, the largest part of the Dutch onion harvest is exported. This export will be lower, because we’ll just be out of onions. This could provide us with some challenges, but we’ll gladly face them.”
In the Netherlands we’ll therefore just be eating onion soup this winter. Whether they’ll do so in the rest of the world remains to be seen.
Source: Waterman Onions
