sustainable avocado production

Agriculture employs 40% of the global population, yet energy poverty and limited resources constrain productivity in many rural regions. In our avocado-growing areas, up to 90% of orchards are under-resourced, resulting in low yields.

At AVO Oro Verde, we integrate small farms into a scalable production model, boosting yields, lowering costs, and delivering nutritious avocados, while distributing non-exportable fruit locally to reduce food waste.

We prioritize delivering the highest-quality, best-tasting, and most nutritious avocados to our clients, benefiting consumers directly. On the production side, we provide unconditional state-run insurance for all workers and their families, a rare practice among farms. This ensures access to free medical care, medicines, and treatments, even in remote areas.

Some regions in which avocados are grown are very poor, and means of employment scarce. By growing our company and our orchards we are able to give quality jobs to more people and generate the need for qualified engineers and farmers, which in term create more jobs for the communities in which they live. This is more qualified jobs, more direct jobs and more indirect jobs that did not exist before our growth.

One of our goals is to become the most efficient avocado producer in the world, and for this we need research an innovation. This is the reason why we have made a coalition with one of the most prestigious universities in the region to develop better farming techniques for our orchards using the best technology available to have a cost-efficient production and planting. This will not only impact our orchards but will probably permeate to the rest of the avocado production market.

Water is the most vital resource in avocado production, and we prioritize its conservation by using advanced irrigation systems with 85% efficiency compared to the standard 60%. We continuously innovate to further enhance water efficiency, striving to implement even better systems as technology advances.

Avocado orchards are efficient air-cleaners, removing up to 6.42 tons of Carbon Dioxide and producing 26 tons of oxygen per hectare per year. For our projected size, by 2025 we will have an impact of over 12 thousand tons of Carbon Dioxide removal and 50 thousand tons of oxygen generated every year. Also, as avocados are permanent crops, land is less inclined to suffer from soil erosion, and therefor rain water is better absorbed into the aquifer.