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CA fee urges Trump administration to take motion to guard avocado orchards

Editorial Board Published May 19, 2025
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins explains why the U.S. rejected Mexico’s request for water supply, the influence on farmers and whether or not the president’s newest order will have an effect on the USDA lunch program throughout a wide-ranging interview.

The California Avocado Fee (CAC) is urging the Trump administration to take actions to assist shield the Golden State’s avocado business from insect pests in Mexico.

In a brand new report, the commerce affiliation issued a collection of suggestions that it thinks the Trump administration and the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) ought to take as much as maintain pests in Mexico from critically hurting California’s billion-dollar avocado business.

Chief among the many suggestions was returning to the unique USDA inspection protocols that it used to have for Mexican avocado and avocado farms beneath a 1997 operational work plan, significantly having USDA inspectors within the groves.

(J. David Ake/Getty Photos)

In September 2024, the Biden administration determined to finish a USDA program known as the Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service particularly within the context of inspecting farms in Mexico to make sure that avocados exported to the U.S. didn’t additionally embrace pests that would disrupt U.S. agriculture. The coverage change got here after criminals in Mexico reportedly assaulted and threatened the inspectors lately. 

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As a substitute, Mexico was charged with making certain avocados despatched throughout the border had been freed from dangerous pests, corresponding to seed and stem weevils and seed moths.

The CAC stated in its report that there was a “dramatic surge” in avocado pest interceptions at Mexican packinghouses since late October. 

Mexican avocados are seen on the market at a market in Mexico Metropolis in 2022. (PEDRO PARDO/AFP through Getty Photos)

USDA inspectors at Mexican packing homes detected dangerous pests in additional than 150 totally different “interceptions” between Oct. 30, 2024, and March 11 this yr, in comparison with none between Jan. 1 and Oct. 17 final yr, the CAC stated, citing USDA information. 

This means a “systemic breakdown in pest control” and necessitates motion from the U.S. authorities, in keeping with the CAC.

“These pests pose a catastrophic risk to California’s pest-free orchards,” the commerce affiliation stated in its report. “Once established, they are virtually impossible to eradicate, forcing growers into costly and environmentally regressive pesticide use, threatening international trade access, and rendering fruit unmarketable.” 

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Along with advocating for the U.S. authorities to “restore full USDA oversight of orchard and packinghouse inspections” in Mexico, the CAC really useful the Trump administration implement safety to guard USDA avocado inspectors within the nation in collaboration with the Mexican authorities. 

It stated the federal government ought to “consider stationing inspectors in secure convoys, rotating staff in high-risk regions, or establishing temporary secure inspection zones” and never permit Mexican avocado exports into the U.S. if the neighboring nation “cannot ensure safety for U.S. personnel.”

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The CAC really useful that the federal authorities must also talk to Mexico that avocados from Mexican orchards and packinghouses can’t come into the U.S. if USDA inspectors can’t examine the websites they arrive from.

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FOX Enterprise reached out to the USDA for remark.

The U.S. receives roughly 80% of the avocados that Mexico exports, making it a serious provider of the fruit for America, in keeping with a USDA report. In 2024, Mexican avocados made up 88% of complete U.S. avocado imports. 

California’s avocado business is value $1.5 billion, in keeping with the CAC. It produced greater than 363.6 million kilos of the fruit in the course of the 2023-2024 season. 

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