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• Avocado is an evergreen fruit tree of the flowering plant family Lauraceae
• Avocados can be grown on a wide range of soils, but they are extremely sensitive to
  poor drainage and cannot withstand water-logging. They are intolerant to saline conditions.
• In India, avocado is not a commercial fruit crop. In a very limited scale it is grown in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka in the south-central India and in the eastern Himalayan state of Sikkim. It can not tolerate the hot dry winds and frosts of northern India. Climatically, it is grown in tropical or semitropical areas experiencing some rainfall in summer, and in humid, subtropical summer rainfall areas.
• The varieties that are cultivated in India go by several names, such as Purple, Green, Fuerte, Pollock, Peradeniya Purple Hybrid, Trapp, Round and Long
• Many people think avocados are green vegetables, but they are indeed fruits.
• There are more than eighty different varieties but the Hass avocado is the most common. The skin of Hass avocados turn a dark purple-black when ripe.
• Avocado is one of the 20 highest selling fresh fruits in the world
• Monounsaturated fat is a fatty acid that helps lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and boosts HDL (good) cholesterol.* Research suggests that the fat in avocados also increases the body’s ability to absorb and use antioxidants.
• The five most important international markets for avocados are the USA (29.7%), France (21%), Holland (6.3%), the UK (6.1%) and Japan (5.9%). Currently, the main importers of Peruvian avocados are Spain, the UK and France while other markets that pose great potential are Holland, Japan, Colombia and Australia.
• Avocado oil has a higher heat tolerance than olive oil in cooking, meaning it doesn’t spit or burn as quickly. It is healthy and tasty for use on salads, pastas, vegetables, grilled foods and dipping bread. It has great benefits in relieving minor sunburn, moisturizing dry and aging skin and as a massage oil base
• Established orchards with the necessary post harvest infrastructure to produce and pack fruit for specific export markets, have enabled tropical fruits to compete at the upper end of the market, maximizing earnings through the sales of fresh fruit in a segment where unit prices are at a premium and contributing to the rapid rise in trade values