Rising costs of water are causing small avocado growers to give up their groves. There’s a new trend and in over 10 years we have seen a decline in the amount of groves and acreage of avocado groves. From nearly 33,000 acres to about 19,000 and expected to level out around 15,000 acres of avocado groves in the next couple of years.
Read the whole article at the Union Tribune.
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