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- Mexican growers and pickers have been striking to raise the price of avocados in the U.S., unhappy with the low payment they have been receiving for their work with the fatty fruit (not a vegetable). These strikes have been described as the biggest disruption to avocado imports in history.
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Jun 22, 2024 · The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, announced on Friday that inspections of avocados and mangos made by U.S. Agriculture Department workers in Michoacán, a state in western Mexico, would...
- Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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Feb 15, 2022 · Avocado farmers in the Michoacán region said even a ban that lasted a couple of months could have a huge negative impact on the local economy.
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Aug 6, 2022 · What’s behind the shortage. Mexico, the main source of U.S. avocado imports, buys nearly 30% of its fertilizer from Russia, and because of the war in Ukraine the supply has tightened and made it...
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Feb 16, 2022 · A threat against a U.S. official conducting avocado inspections in Michoacán, Mexico may have very well put the nation on the verge of a critical avocado shortage.
Feb 14, 2022 · The United States has suspended avocado imports from Mexico’s western state of Michoacan after a US official received a threat, Mexico’s Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
