France offered to buy 8 tonnes of ‘Amara’ avocado and Indian offered to buy 1,000 tonnes of ‘Hass’ avocado from Myanmar this year.

France, India and Thailand are the main foreign customers for Myanmar avocados.

France will buy 8 tonnes of avocado grown and produced in Myanmar and now the traders are preparing to export them.

The harvesting of avocado which meets the quality and standard for export will start in November this year.

Currently the avocados are being picked from the trees but the high export quality avocados can be picked in early November only and then they will be exported to the countries which have sent the indents for imports.

The rainfall this year is better than last year and the production of avocado is good too and moreover they get better prices this year too.

A spokesperson for Myanmar Avocado Producers and Exporters Association (MAVO) said that they were trying to fulfill the demands of foreign buyers.

The number of avocado producers is increasing in Shan State and other regions and the yield of avocado orchards is about 5,000-10,000 tonnes of export quality avocado per acre.

MAVO said that they could not meet India's demand of 1,000 tonnes.

Currently the avocado farmers in Hopone, southern Shan State are collectively building an avocado cleaning and packaging factory at the cost of over 800 million Kyat.

On the other hand, avocado farmers have changed to a cheaper farming system after the farm input rose in the wake of a high dollar exchange rate and the per acre yield fell.

Farmers now demand the price of export quality fruit at 3.5 million Kyat per tonne in accordance with the price in the global market.