Recently, tens of thousands of avocados in perfect condition piled up in a landfill in Queensland, Australia, aroused great interest from the national media. The value of these avocados was estimated at 50-100 tons, totaling about $200,000.
It is reported that the impact of the Novel coronavirus, overseas avocado market demand fell sharply, coupled with local farmers in the past 10 years of planting trends, the supply of avocados in Australia soared 65% last year, resulting in a large backlog of inventory, due to rising transport and packaging costs, the more farmers sold the more losses, had to bear the pain of throwing away.