Onion
Onion is the flavor base of nearly every Bangladeshi dish; Insaf sells one variety of onion.
Onion is a pungent bulb vegetable used to build flavor in almost every kind of cooking. It stores well, which keeps it within reach in the kitchen all year.
Few Bangladeshi dishes are cooked without onion, making it a fixture on every household's shopping list.
Growing it in Bangladesh
- Sowing time
- Insaf's Folonraj-1 variety is sown between October and November and harvested in 100-110 days.
- Weather & soil
- Onion prefers dry, cool weather and grows best in well-drained soil.
- Care
- Choose well-drained soil — standing water can rot the bulbs
- Keep the field dry before harvest, which improves storage life
- When the leaves turn yellow and fall over, the onions are ready to pull