In early April 2025, we reported on the beginning of the harvest of early bulb onions in Uzbekistan. The availability of export-ready volumes and retail-quality produce on the domestic market was expected around April 15–20. As anticipated, the export season for Uzbekistan’s new onion crop started right on schedule, according to EastFruit experts.
According to Nodirbek Musaev, head of the major export company Musaevs AgriFoods LLC, shipments of the first small batches of the new season’s onions began about a week ago, and the current export season has started with relatively high prices.
“Current export prices for Uzbekistan’s new harvest onions are at 40–45 US cents per kilogram on FCA terms, which is approximately double the price compared to the same period last year. Despite this, major Russian and Belarusian retailers issued tenders for the supply of Uzbek onions at the end of last week and the beginning of this one. We can likely expect the start of large-scale exports within a week to ten days,” the exporter explained.
It is worth noting that the primary reason for the high prices of Uzbekistan’s new-season onions is the significant reduction in the area planted with winter onions in August–September of last year. The harvest of those crops began in the second half of March this year.
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Bulb onions are the largest category by physical volume in Uzbekistan’s vegetable export sector, and the country is the leading onion exporter in the Central Asian region. According to the National Statistics Committee, Uzbekistan exported 64.6 thousand tonnes of bulb onions worth $14.4 million in the first quarter of 2025 alone.
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