Tancítaro is powered on avocados, its people are rich from Mexico's green gold. This town is known as Mexico's avocado capital. The municipality of about 30,000 people produces enough avocados to ...

Dubbed “green gold” among Mexicans, the avocado trade has attracted crime groups that extort payments from producers and have acted as muscle for others by displacing people and deforesting ...

An estimated 10 football fields of forest in Mexico are cleared every day to create avocado plantations, today’s letter notes. Mexico is the largest U.S. supplier of avocados, referred to as “green ...

Kenya overtook South Africa last year to become the continent's top avocado exporter. Vigilante groups are now being formed to protect the crop, known as "green gold". As night falls on a fairly ...

Kenya is becoming a notable producer of the much sought-after green gold -- avocado. Interestingly, Murang’a County currently accounts for about 80 per cent of the total avocado production in ...

The participation of the cooperatives is an important step toward regulating the country's avocado exports, said Ferdinand ...