There’s some much-needed relief at the checkout as the cost of avocados is smashed due to improved growing conditions and an oversupply of the fruit in Queensland.
Most supermarket prices are sitting between $1.80 and $2, down from $3 earlier in the year.
Shoppers can also expect price drops for other seasonal items including bananas, apples and lettuce.
Avocados Australia CEO John Tyas said there was a limit to how low the prices could go.
“It gets to a point where growers just simply can’t supply and there will be more fruit going off shore,” Tyas said.
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“Over the next few months we will be supplying out of North Queensland then Central Queensland and then move down the NSW Coast.”
In NSW, crops have suffered damage due to the wet weather and hail but other growing areas are experiencing a surplus.
Farmers believe avocado prices will be low in the next few years ahead.
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