AVO Oro Verde
The orchard is the asset.
AVO Oro Verde develops and operates avocado farmland in Mexico.
What we do
We develop and operate avocado farmland in Mexico
AVO Oro Verde plants, grows, and runs avocado orchards as a long-term real asset, and raises private capital from qualified investors to do it. We work the land ourselves, and how an orchard is run decides how long it keeps producing.
The asset
Why the land is scarce
Avocado farmland is scarce. The fruit needs particular altitude, soil, and steady water, and most of the ground that has all three is already planted. A new orchard gives its first commercial crop around year four and reaches full production in roughly eight to twelve years with modern methods. Those years are why new supply comes on slowly, and why the orchards already producing are worth holding.
Demand keeps climbing. World avocado production is projected to reach about 12 million tonnes by 2030, more than three times its 2010 level. The land that can grow the fruit does not expand at anything like that pace.
≈12M
tonnes by 2030
3× since 2010
Who runs AVO Oro Verde
The people on the land
The orchards are run by people who have spent their careers in agriculture, finance, and getting Mexican fruit to market.
Eloy Vargas
Chief Executive Officer
Founded more than ten agricultural companies over twenty years and helped open Mexican avocado markets to North America and Asia in 2005. As secretary of economic development for Michoacán, he positioned the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas as a leading cargo port.
Pedro Somarriba
Chief Commercial Officer
Twenty-five years in business development and finance. Co-founded AVO works (a separate company), which reached more than $80 million in annual sales within two years, and led the sale of Globalpack, a JPMorgan portfolio company with $300 million in annual sales. Ten years at PwC US on M&A and SEC filings.
Francisco Escobar
Chief Financial Officer
Thirteen years in finance and founder of Asymmetrica Investments AG. Previously at Peter Pühringer, PwC Asset Management, and Earl Capital AG in Switzerland. Graduate of the Vienna University of Economics; passed all CAIA and CFA exams.
Dr. Liliana Pérez Manríquez
Chief Business Development Officer
Fifteen years of international business development across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, working with Fortune 500 companies, startups, governments, and NGOs. PhD in Bioscience from KAUST, with further study at Harvard Business School, Cornell, and Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Coverage of AVO Oro Verde. Mention is not endorsement.
The research
Read how we study the asset
What we’ve learned about avocado farmland, written up and published in full.
On the ground
Water, soil, and the long view
Steady water and living soil are what keep an orchard producing for decades. How we manage them is part of the case for the land.
This is a long horizon. Avocado farmland is a long-term real-asset commitment, exposed to agriculture and to markets, and an orchard takes years to mature.
We share the specifics only with investors who qualify for a private offering and have been verified. The briefing comes before that, and it is for answering your questions. We don’t use it to sell you.
The next step
Request a briefing
An hour on the asset and how we farm it. Bring the questions you’d want answered before you back farmland.