The popular breakfast of avocado toast is under threat in New Zealand, with two years of low harvests generating waiting lists for avocado trees at garden centres and inspiring a rash of thefts from orchards.
Official figures showed that local avocado prices smashed records in May. The average cost of the fruit was five New Zealand dollars per avocado, a 37 per cent increase over last year.
Because of its strict biosecurity laws, New Zealand does not import avocados, and growers said the fruit’s short supply and increasing popularity had led some to take desperate measures.
Jen Scoular, chief executive of the industry body New Zealand Avocado, said the thefts were mostly “opportunistic,” as criminals saw a way to make money from the shortage. An avocado black market has sprung up to distribute the spoils, with the sunny, fruit-growing region of Bay of Plenty particularly hard hit, police officials said.
Wanilipie fare ya ndege nitawapelekea Maguna ngui yote wanataka.
Soma bana
nimeona but hio nitaingiza kisnipper.Hio ni cash cow bana.Kama kuuza heroin.
Sawa macodomafia!!
Kuna ‘ovacando’ mafia kule south America. Hii kitu inalindwa na ex military kama cocaine juu unalala unapata zilivunwa zote.