State of the onion: Peeling away data behind agri exports brings tears to the eyes

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China, not India, is the world’s largest producer of onions.
China grows some 20 million metric tons of allium produce (a genus that includes onions, scallion, shallot, garlic, chives, leek etc) compared to India’s 13 million metric tons.
But India can export onions only in good years (it raked in nearly $500 million in exports in 2018), and it ends up consuming most of what it grows during bad years, as is happening in 2019.
In fact, even in a good year, India is not the top onion exporter.
The Dutch knocked up $676 million in onion exports in 2018, accounting for nearly 20% of world onion trade, ahead of exports by China, Mexico, India, and the United States, all onion majors.
Going Dutch on exports: Now why would Netherlands end up as an onion powerhouse?
The Dutch dominate not only the world’s cut flower/bouquet trade (not counting allium, they take in $4.5 billion in revenue, accounting for 50% of the world’s flower exports), but they are also among the world’s top exporter of tomatoes ($1.9 billion), peppers/chillies ($1.08 billion), cucumbers ($565 million), and pineapples ($265 million) among a host of other agri products that they do not consume domestically in great quantity.
But just to give a sense of scale and numbers, India’s export of its storied spices was less than Dutch export of its beer in 2018.
In fact, India exported less tea and coffee ($1.3 billion combined), neither of which is well branded and marketed, than Netherlands exported tomato.
The Dutch exported more milk products than India exported rice, including its famed basmati.
It is hard to stomach the fact that India’s export of pepper, a spice that once led commercial brigands to India and which was once called “black gold” and was used in Europe as gift, bribe, and even to pay taxes, accounted for a modest $772 million import revenue in 2018; the Dutch earned more exporting potatoes ($807 million)

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