Climate change has been exaggerated in Mexico by the increase in planting avocado versus foresting and in turn, is impacting the orchards of this fruit negatively. The Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico, Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, pointed out that the forest is what dampens the climate change.
In Michoacán there are more than 100 hectares of avocado fields. The avocado is the main agricultural export product and the 80% of avocado orchards are located in all natural, rain-fed land.
Juan Elvira is concerned about illegal changes in land use [from foresting to planting avocados] because "if this phenomenon continues", he believes that, ironically enough, 'the number one enemy of the avocado in the Michoacán area will be precisely the climate change'.
Source: www.freshplaza.com
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