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Browsing: Avocados
The Tanzania Horticultural Association (Taha), is reporting an increase in revenue from the export of avocados which until now were not considered key export cash crop.
However growing demand in the US and Europe has seen the sub-sector increase revenue to USD 23 million annually.
Tanzania is the second largest producer of avocado fruit in Africa second only to Kenya. Over the past 5 years, avocado exports have frog leaped from 1,877 tonnes in 2014 to 9,000 tonnes in 2019 and were it not for the COVID-19 outbreak, this figure was expected to go only higher.
Kenya is already doing much better with its estimated annual output is about 190,000 tonnes every year as the country exports an average of 10,000 metric tonnes annually.
In Tanzania, there are about 10000 farmers of the crop who are spread out across the country and of these, now most have turned to the …