Vegetable

Onion

📍 Eritrea

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

Sow Harvest

Sow

Jan – Dec

Harvest

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Growing period

135 - 180 days

Seeding rate

3.5 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.

Where Onion grows in Eritrea

hill mountain

Arid lowland

Northern western and southern Eritrea. Altitude: 400 - 1600 m. Relief: Flat to rolling plains, hills & mountains. Precipitation: 200 - 500 mm. Temperature : 21 - 29ºC

hill mountain

Moist highland

Central and southern highland. Altitude: 1600 - 2600m (318m maximum). Relief Dominant slope: Undulating to rolling platzux, hills, ridges, valleys . Soil: Cambisols, luvisols, lithosols, vertisols . Temperature (Mean): 15 - 21ºC

plains

Moist lowland

South western Eritrea lower part of eastern escarpment. Altitude: 500 - 1600 m. Relief: Undulating to rolling plains and ridges . Soil: Cambisols, vertisols, fluvisoks, lithosols. Precipitation (mean): 500 - 800 mm. Temperature (Mean): 21 - 28ºC

Looking for another crop? Browse the full Eritrea crop calendar or the Onion guide for other countries.