7000 tons of onions destroyed by the first rains of June 27 passed

The first rains fell on June 27, in the northern region, did not spare the onion growers of the department of Dagana at all.

Indeed, these precipitations destroyed 7000 tons of their production of hot counterseason. A rotten and visible production on the ground at the point of sale, in the stores and in the plots of culture. On the spot, it is the total anxiety of the producers who always fear for their production in stock which also risks to rot if, once, there is new precipitations.

Estimated at 7000 tons of onions, this production should, according to these producers, be sold as quickly as possible before the fall of other rains. A situation that if nothing is done may cause enormous harm to these producers of onions fearful of their debts at the level of the Cncas. Debts that they will have difficulty to refund if their production in stock remains unsold. Hence the cry of heart sent to the state authorities to help them sell all this production estimated at 7000 tons of onions.

The slump of this one would have started the day after the Korita feast, according to the President of the Dagana section of the Union of Saint-Louis Onions Producers (UPOS). Mamadou Diop also pointed out the garish lack of storage warehouses in the North Zone. Today, with these 7000 tons of rotten onions due to the first rains, the eyes of these producers are riveted to the threatening sky that could open its valves again from one moment to another.