Onion

Red onions are cultivars of the onion with purplish-red skin and white flesh tinged with red. These onions tend to be medium to large in size and have a mild to sweet flavor. The onion is a hardy cool-season biennial but usually grown as an annual crop. They come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. Farmers will generally grow onions from seeds and transplant the seedlings. Onion sets are mainly used for seed production. Depending on the duration of the variety grown and climatic conditions, farmers can cultivate 3 cycles of onion per year.