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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]
The United States has tried to impose similar safeguards for decades on Mexican avocados, ... While avocado growing has provided a good income for many small landholders in Mexico, it has also ...
According to information published by the Water Footprint Network, it takes an average of approximately 70 litres (18 US gallons; 15 imperial gallons) of applied fresh ground or surface water, not including rainfall or natural moisture in the soil, to grow one avocado (283 L/kg [33.9 US gal/lb; 28.2 imp gal/lb]). However, the amount of water ...
The United States imports about 80 percent of all avocado exports from Mexico which totals around 3 billion dollars each year. Much of this avocado production is a result of illegal deforestation that has taken place, and many US companies continue to sell avocados that have been harvested in these areas. [7] [31] [32]
Trade groups are pressing for a quick resolution after the U.S. banned avocado imports from Michoacán, following a threat to a U.S. inspector there.
When two US avocado inspectors were assaulted and detained at a police roadblock in the Mexican state of Michoacán last month, it sparked a costly international crisis. ... Avocado trees grow on ...
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. Because the United States also grows avocados, U.S. inspectors work in Mexico to ensure exported avocados don’t carry diseases that could hurt U.S. crops.
Owing to its taste, size, shelf-life, high growing yield and in some areas, year-round harvesting, the Hass cultivar is the most commercially popular avocado worldwide. In the United States it accounts for more than 80% of the avocado crop and 95% of the California crop, and it is the most widely grown avocado in New Zealand. [1] [3]