2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The permanent feeling that the world as we know it is about to end may be accentuated in the coming days if President Donald Trump fulfills his new threat to close the border with Mexico and the Americans are left without his fashionable fruit: avocado.
It's not an April Fool's Day joke, although it seems like it. Terror among numerous avocado lovers has been unleashed by Steve Barnard, the president and CEO of Mission Produce, the world's largest avocado distributor and grower, after declaring to the Reuters agency that if the border were closed, green fruit would run out in three weeks.
"They couldn't have chosen a worse time of year [to close the border] because Mexico provides practically 100% of avocados in the United States right now," he told the British news agency. "[The California harvest] has just started and it's a very small harvest, but right now it doesn't count and it won't be for a month or so."
The warning from the manager of the agro-industrial company is not to be taken as a joke, considering that almost half of the vegetables and 40% of the fruits imported by the United States are grown in Mexico, according to the Department of Agriculture of U. S.
President Trump threatened last Friday with the "very likely possibility" that this week he will order the closure of the country's southern border if Mexican authorities do not increase their efforts to stop the flow of immigrants trying to enter the United States, then that a new caravan left Central America last week.
As Reuters recalls, closing the border would mean halting trade between the two countries, which only in food imports amounts to Michoacán, from where almost 2,000 million pounds of avocados are exported annually to the northern neighbor.
The review Forbes tried to prevent panic by pointing out that California still produces the half of avocados that are consumed, although the heat wave suffered by the state last year has caused the expected quantity to be reduced.
Some are already wondering if the avocado will achieve what the report of the special prosecutor Robert Muller on the Russiagate did not achieve.
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