How to avoid chilling injury in onions
Onions thrive best when temperatures are cool during early development and then warmer and sunny during maturity. Nutritional programs containing soluble calcium can help to protect crops against chilling injury, which can lead to cell breakdown.
Calcium protects onions against chilling injury
Calcium is a key nutrient that helps protect against chilling injury, which can lead to cell breakdown. This can be valuable in stores where there is poor temperature control.
Calcium also helps to reduce the effect of salt stress on onions.
Recommended Yara fertilisers for onions
Related articles
Onion crop nutrition programme
Yara's fertiliser recommendations and crop nutrition programmes for onions can help you to achieve excellent crop performance and maximise the yield and quality of all allium crops.
How to improve onion quality
Nutrition programmes based on crop nutrient needs are key to influencing dry matter content, firmness and storability as well as taste and pungency, all important factors in determining the quality of onion crops.
How to manage onion taste and pungency
Taste and pungency are key quality characteristics of the onion crop. They vary among types and cultivars however it is well known that good nutrition is essential to manage these characteristics.
Onion nutrient deficiencies
Identify and diagnose if your onions are suffering from nutrient deficiencies and learn more about the symptoms and causes and how to control or correct the deficiency
Looking for even more information ...
If you would like more information on vegetable agronomy or nutrition and would like to speak to one of our area managers or agronomists please find all their contact details here
Contact your local Yara area manager or agronomist
Where can I buy Yara fertiliser ...
If you would like to find your nearest Yara supplier or merchant simply use this searchable map with all their contact details here.
