Growing onions on your whenua

Growing onions on your whenua

Onions are grown at scale, and the example in this factsheet is a large Pukekohe farm. It covers what onions need from the soil and climate, the cycle from planning and planting through to harvest, storage and pest control, then running costs and revenue.

Export requirements, the levies paid to Horticulture NZ and Onions NZ, food safety and freshwater farm plans are covered.

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  • Potatoes

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing potatoes on your whenua.

  • Chestnuts

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    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing chestnuts on your whenua.

  • Hops

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing hops on your whenua.

Compliance

  • Macadamias

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    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing macadamias on your whenua.

  • Blueberries

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing blueberries on your whenua.

  • Peas

    Enterprise
    Arable crops
    Compliance
    Profitability

    Growing peas on your whenua.

Horticulture

  • Onions - Profitability

    Enterprise
    Agribusiness
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Find out the operating profit onions could earn on the whenua in your rohe each year.

  • Citrus

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing citrus on your whenua.

  • Wine grapes

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability
    Viticulture

    Growing wine grapes on your whenua.

An alternative perspective

  • Onions - Critical climate risks

    Climate
    Adaptation
    Horticulture
    Risk

    Discover how heat, frost and heavy rain could affect onions in your rohe.

  • Maize - Phenological stages under climate change

    Climate
    Adaptation
    Arable crops
    Productivity
    Resilience
    Sustainability

    Track how sowing and harvest timing for maize could shift as the climate changes.

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Compare how well suited the whenua in your rohe is to growing onions.

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Discover the operating profit covered blueberries could earn on the whenua in your rohe each year.

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Check the operating profit Pinot noir grapes could earn on the whenua in your rohe each year.

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Productivity
Profitability

Compare the operating profit green kiwifruit could earn on the whenua in your rohe each year.