Price of onions shoots down

Price of onions shoots down

BREBES, Central Java: Local onion farmers are being hard hit
this harvest by the declining price of onions following the sale
of imported onion shoots as a regular spice.

A slight price decrease is to be expected during harvesting
season, a farmer from the Klampok Khudori village told The
Jakarta Post. This year's price, however, has gone as low as Rp
500 (25 U.S. cents) per kilogram because the farmers had to adapt
to the circulating imported onion shoots from Thailand and
Vietnam.

Suwondo, a spice merchant, said that imported onion shoots are
meant for planting. "But since local bulbs have already flooded
the market, the imported ones have been sold as regular spice,"
he told the Post. (wah/14)