![]() ![]() ![]() With this increase in the popularity of avocados, US demand vastly exceeded what domestic sources could produce, enabling Mexican avocados to dominate the American market. ![]() Since then, per capita avocado consumption in the United States has ballooned, from 2 pounds in 2001 to nearly 8 pounds in 2018. In 1997, Southern California produced about 90 percent of the avocados Americans ate. ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty ImagesĪvocados from Mexico have been fueling America’s taste for the fruit since 1997, when the US Department of Agriculture lifted a 1914 import ban that was originally implemented out of fear that pests such as seed weevils would infest US crops. Soldiers from the Special Forces of the Mexican Army patrol the community Naranjo de Chila in Michoacán state. ![]()
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