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Vegetable

Onion

📍 Cameroon

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

1 2 3 4 5
Sow Harvest
Sow
May
Harvest
Aug – Sep
Growing period
120 - 150 days
Seeding rate
0.5 kg/ha
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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.
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Where Onion grows in Cameroon

plains

Sudano-Sahelian zone

This overall average altitude of 200m includes the provinces of North and Far North. Many isolated massifs sometimes amounting to over 200 m (Gorna, Polish, Tcholiré) sometimes disrupt the monotony of the vast plains. Soil type ferruginous relatively rich in chemical elements, but susceptible to erosion phenomenon especially pronounced slope. Rainfall misallocated on tois months (500 to 1000 mm per year). Pluvimétrie: monomodale.Températures Maxi annual average: 33.8 ° C, Mini yearly average: 20 ° C. Relative humidity: average annual High: 73%, average annual Mini 35%. Prevailing wind: Harmattan. Vegetation: Steppe with thorny woodland and dry savannah.

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