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Countries by avocado production in 2020. 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]
Mexico is by far the world's largest avocado growing country, producing several times more than the second largest producer. [81] In 2013, the total area dedicated to avocado production was 188,723 hectares (466,340 acres), and the harvest was 2.03 million tonnes in 2017. [ 11 ]
Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.
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 ...
Avocado production is important to the economy of Mexico with the country being the world's largest producer of the crop. [1] [2] Mexico supplies 45 percent of the international avocado market. [3] Of the 57 avocado producing countries, the other major producers are Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Kenya, in that order. [4]
Michoacan, Mexico's top avocado producing state and the only one currently approved to export to the United States, has long had security issues linked to drug gangs.
At least 30,000 hectares (74,130 acres) had been deforested in the state between 2018 and 2023, Ramirez said, with 817 illegal avocado orchards identified by the local government's Forest Guardian ...
Last weekend, two USDA employees were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in Michoacan, Salazar said earlier this week. That led the U.S. to suspend inspections in Mexico’s biggest avocado-producing state. The employees work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.