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This is a list of countries by avocado production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for avocados in 2022 was 8,978,275 metric tonnes , up 4.8% from 8,570,284 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
Calavo Growers, Inc., was founded on January 21, 1924, as the California Avocado Growers' Exchange. Due to overwhelming interest in the avocado, many California growers had planted avocado seeds that had originated in Mexico. Although slow to mature, by 1923 those avocado trees were producing a large enough crop to be marketed.
California farms produce 90% of all U.S.-grown avocados, with the great majority being of the Hass variety. [14] In 2021 [ 15 ] the state harvest was 135,500 short tons (122,900 t) on 46,700 acres (18,900 ha) for a yield of 2.9 short tons per acre (6.5 t/ha), and at $2,430 per short ton ($2,679/t) that brought $327,369,000.
As avocado demand rises in the U.S., farmers in Kenya are producing more of the fruit.
Iran is painfully short of water. Rationing and buying water from nearby countries are options on the table. But that's Iran, it's in a desert and isn't as high up on the economic scale as the ...
The organization is based in Irvine, California.Among its initiatives are advertising, public relations, defending growers from effects of importation of avocados from Mexico, [5] compiling and disseminating industry news and information, lobbying, research on growing and production, and policing groves from "avocado rustlers" who steal fruit.
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Avocados were introduced to California from Nicaragua in the early 1850s, when avocado trees imported from the Central American country were observed and reported growing near San Gabriel. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] [ 86 ] The avocado has since become a successful cash crop .