For the second time in two years, Gildardo Urrego is scooping up piles of dead bees after an invisible evil invaded his hives in northwest Colombia, wreaking havoc among his swarms.Continue Reading
From humble origins on a 1.5-acre plot to flowering into a multi-million dollar industry for cultivators, Colombia recently over-took leading avocado producing nations as the main supplier of Hass to Europe, dominating 30% of the total market share.Continue Reading
Peru exported 410,463,231 kilos of avocado in 2020, almost 100 million kilos more than the 310,870,326 kilos it exported in 2019, according to data published by Agrodata Peru.Continue Reading
The coronavirus pandemic won’t stop Mexico from sending a huge quantity of avocados to the United States in the lead-up to the Super Bowl to be played February 7 in Tampa, Florida.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Business Daily Export prices of avocado have risen to Sh800 (USD 7.15) per four-kilogramme pack in November, propped up demand for the few supplies available in the market as the main crop season dragged to a close. Data by the Horticulture Directorate shows that the November prices represented aContinue Reading
SOURCE: Nacho Sanchez, El Pais TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Avocado cultivation in Malaga has grown exponentially in recent decades. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, the province has gone from having 50 avocado trees in 1943 to 1.5 million avocado trees in almost 7,000 hectares nowadays. ThisContinue Reading
SOURCE: Marvin Barquero, La Nacion TRANSLATION: Freshplaza Honduras’ Hass avocado has gone from accounting for 4.17% of all Costa Rican imports of this fruit in 2018 to 30% in the first nine months of 2020, positioning the Central American country as Costa Rica’s leading supplier of Hass avocado. According toContinue Reading
SOURCE: Liam O’Callaghan, Fruitnet The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has identified new potential growing regions for Hass avocado as it looks to capitalise on demand in China and offset deforestation. In a statement Emmanuel Piñol, secretary of MinDA, said eight areas had expressed interest in the agency’s environmental farming programme,Continue Reading
Mustafa has been growing avocados since 2017 after switching from sugarcane because avocado farming is profitable yet it requires minimal maintenance.Continue Reading
Given avocado’s popularity today, it’s hard to believe that we came close to not having them in our supermarkets at all.Continue Reading
California avocados gained access to the Chinese market as a result of the China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement, according to a report published on Agweb, a leading agriculture news website in the United States.Continue Reading
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.’s margins are set to benefit from a resurgent avocado supply that will keep prices lower at least through the summer, SunTrust analyst Jake Bartlett wrote in a report.Continue Reading