Zimbabwe avocado exports reach $4.2m
In a monthly newsletter for July, the country’s national export promotion and trade development agency, ZimTrade said that official data from Trademap, indicated the major destination markets for avocados from Zimbabwe were The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France and Germany.
“The major destination markets for Zimbabwe’s avocado exports in 2016 were The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France and Germany accounting for 68.3 percent, 13.4 percent, 9.0 percent and 6.6 percent respectively.
“ZimTrade, therefore, urges both small and large-scale avocado producers to consolidate their orders and increase exports to markets such as the European Union, the United States of America and Asia,” it said.
Global demand for avocados increased by 120.1 percent from $2.2 billion in 2012 to $4.9 billion in 2016. The USA, which accounted for 40.4 percent of global imports of avocados in 2016, recorded a rapid increase in per capita consumption of the highly nutritious fruit from just over 1.5 kilogrammes in 2006 to more than three kg in 2015. Increased consumption in other countries such as China, Spain, UK and Germany, among others has put additional pressure on the present supply, thereby driving global prices higher.
source: cfuzim.org
