- Author: Ben Faber
The meeting will include a presentation by Sam Santander (CDFA-Avocado Inspection Service), Ken Melban (CAC) and a Q/A on avocado growing in the SJV. There will be also 2 visits to GEM growers in the local area. Directions to the tour stops will be provided at the meeting.
San Joaquin Valley Avocado Meeting, December 5, 2022, 8:30 AM to ~12:30 PM
UC Lindcove Research and Extension Center, 22963 Carson Ave, Exeter, CA 93221
PLEASE RSVP to Mary Lu Arpaia, mlarpaia@ucanr.edu with Subject Line: 12/5/22 Avocado Meeting
Mary Lu Arpaia
Professor of Extension, Subtropical Horticulture
University of California
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
Riverside, CA 92521
- Author: Ben Faber
A recent auction in South Africa was selling 'Maluma' variety of avocado for $92 a tree. That is more than the average price of avocado nursery trees in that country and a lot more than what is paid in California or Florida. That variety has suddenly gotten a huge demand because of its sales characteristics accounting for 13% of the tree sales from one nursery there.
This is a phenomenon that is going on world-wide not just for 'Maluma'. According to a CA nursery producer, the 'Maluma' sale is really a reflection of the world-wide demand for avocado trees and not necessarily this South African variety. Avocado acreage is expanding world-wide. So far 'Maluma' has a US import license, but has not been grown in CA, so we don't know its performance characteristics. That should change soon according to the nurseryman.
Related story: South Africa: Maluma Day to challenge avocado sector's “convenient position”:
http://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2017/03/08/south-africa-avocado-auction-shows-exorbitant-demand-maluma-trees/
