Get smashing: avocado growers want consumers to buy more amid fruit glut

Fruit oversupply plus rising cost of fertiliser, fuel and freight means producers are going backwards, Avocados Australia boss says

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Avocado growers are pleading with customers to buy more of the fruit, as a glut in supply sends prices to a historic low.

Across the country, the oversupply of avocados has seen prices drop dramatically - with the fruit going for as little as $1 in some stores.

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