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The 'Avocado Belt of the Mexican Republic' includes Michoacán and the State of Mexico. [5] The major cultivars in Mexico are Fuerte, Hass, Bacon, Reed, Criollor, and Zutano. [6] Additionally, with the avocado industry being so large in Mexico, it leads to environmental consequences such as deforestation and water scarcity. [7]
With clever Super Bowl ads, an irresistible fruit and apparently insatiable appetite from U.S. consumers, Mexico’s avocado producers have so far been able to separate avocados from the ...
The U.S. government extended avocado import permissions to Guatemala on Friday, but don’t expect that to result in cheaper guacamole anytime soon. For nearly 30 years, Mexico has been ...
The Mexican state of Michoacán is the world leader in avocado production, accounting for 80% of all Mexican output. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] Most Mexican growers produce the Hass variety due to its longer shelf life for shipping and high demand among consumers.
Two employees of the U.S. Agriculture Department were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in the Mexican state of Michoacan, prompting the U.S. government to suspend inspections of ...
A potential conflict looms with avocado growers — who are often sponsored by, or pay protection money to, drug cartels. Last week, dozens of residents, farmworkers and small-scale farmers from Villa Madero hiked up into the hills to tear out irrigation equipment using mountain springs to water avocado orchards carved out of the pine-covered ...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the U.S. government's withdrawal of inspectors from avocado packing houses, even as both sides said exports to the U.S. would resume.
The Fuerte avocado is the second most popular commercial variety of avocado in the world, [2] after Hass. Brought from Mexico to the United States in 1911, [1] Fuerte quickly became the dominant commercial avocado variety in the United States. Its commercial dominance lasted into the 1950s, [3] when it was surpassed by Hass.