Hi sung when I was in Korea I saw a lot strawberry yet I had to see any avocado on sale there, as for korea I do not whether there is a market. However, in Singapore the avocado is sold at a very high price . Sometimes, it cost about $1.50 about P48 per piece. In Philippine you can brought it for a Kg.
Avocado (Tropical Agriculturalist)
I had a friend in US told me that the green-fruited and purple-fruited avocados is sold at a very high price even in so-called Farmers Markets which are supposed to offer cheaper fruit and vegetable products raised by farmers. Avocado in the US is not only marketed as a fruit as what is being done in the Philippines but actually as a vegetable which is used in salads and food offered at home and at restaurants. the Department of Agriculture (DA) of the Philippines reported that in 1990-1997, the country had a total area of 4,753 hectares planted with avocado. Average annual production was estimated at 45,864 tons.
Leading producing regions of the country are the Cagayan Valley, Central Visayas and Southern Tagalog, while the leading producing provinces are Bohol, located in Central Visayas and Isabela, Nueva Viscaya, Quirino and Cagayan which are located in the Cagayan Valley.
In terms of area planted with avocado, Bicol is the leading region, followed by Cagayan Valley and Southern Luzon.
The FAO report said most regions of the country, however, have low productivity since avocado is grown mostly as a backyard tree or as a component of a mixed orchard with little or no care at all.
Since avocado is not considered a major fruit in the country and is planted mostly in backyards, the FAO report said only a limited amount of planting material is being produced in a few government institutions and private nurseries. Planting materials may come in the form of grafted plants or seedlings for rootstock use.
Government agencies, such as the Bureau of Plant Industry of the DA and the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Banos, particularly the National Seed Foundation and the Department of Horticulture, produce a few hundred grafted plants of locally available varieties.
In the Philippines, the report said, the marketing of avocado involves two very simple systems. In the first system, the farmers bring their harvest to the market together with other farm produce such as banana, root crops, chicken and sell these directly to the consumers.
It is also being sold though middlemen, locally called comprador, who buys all the avocado fruits from the farmers at a lower price and sells them in the market at a higher price. The report explained that the middleman generally dictates the farm gate price since he bears the transportation cost. Under the present nature of small-scale and backyard avocado production, where the volume of production is small, the farmer prefers to sell his produce to the middleman.
What there told me that avocado was introduced into the country when it is a fruit that had long been growing in Spanish-oriented countries like Mexico. Some report said at the end of the 19th century, several plant species were introduced into the Philippines.
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Some, it said, proved to be valuable and easily adapted to the Philippine conditions while others were less promising and did not gain a wide acceptance among the populace. Avocados are found growing all over the country, most of which are cultivated in backyards. By the way,if you seen y previous post I had in our restaurant backyard. It can be large scale production f the farmer know how to develop better production technology coupled with improved post-harvest and processing technology for the development of the crop and achieve in a sizable farm for export.
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