Production of onions should and could lead to an export market. One thinks of Guatemala and Salvador. The onion growers haven't got that far along in experience with this import substitution crop yet. It is believed Mexicans can produce onions that are bigger, at higher elevations and ship them to Belize cheaper than we can grow them here. But growing onions here, makes us self sufficient in food. Also saves foreign exchange.
The leeks,a small bulb onion, could be pickled in plastic food jars, similar to peanut butter imported jars and exported by the container load. I've grown them successfully in my hydroponics nursery. They grow easily. The green tops could be fed to rabbit farm, as rabbits produce meat faster than chickens and we could export rabbit meat. What is lacking is the agro-processing technical knowledge, markets and the abillity to produce the containers here locally.
Miss Balam is the Mayan agronomist doing research on vegetables things. She did a couple of years research on storing onions and that paid off this year with the available knowledge to straighten out the steep and expensive learning curve, pioneer onion farmers were going through.
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