Avocados are increasingly interested in the world market for food is not only playing but also a source of nutritious food, which is used in the processing of daily food and industrial use in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals.
 
 Nutritious fruits
 
Avocado (Persea americana) is a fruit tree, is said to have originated from Mexico about 12 thousand years ago, through Guatamela then to Central America, spread to South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Las Guyanas, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru , Bolivia and Chile. Avocados are grown in the tropics, most EU regions only Spanish. Butter was introduced in our country in the 20th century Avocado is easy to grow, few care, can live from 25 to 40 years. Average harvest an avocado tree from 200-300 kg.
 

Presence on the international market

Growing avocados intensive to start selling in the United States (California and Florida) in the 1930s, followed by Israel, South Africa and Chile ... According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), World butter production increased four times over four decades. 2012 more than 4 million tons of output (LZ 1). Currently, Mexico is the largest producer of avocados in the world, followed by Chile, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, USA, Colombia (Table 3). Thrive butter production was recorded in the country of Chile, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Peru and the Dominican Republic.
The leading country is imported butter in developed countries. My head with 503 thousand tons in 2012, mainly imported from Mexico sources, the EU's import market avocados second most important after the United States, including the Netherlands (95 693 tonnes), France (94 610 tonnes), the UK (37 675 tonnes ), Spain (33 948 tonnes), Germany (26 817 tonnes) and Sweden (18,800 tons). Asian countries Japan is the fourth largest importer of butter with 59 thousand tons in 2012 (BD 3).

EU butter demand tends to increase, the current per capita butter consumption per capita of less than 0.6 EU kg / person / year, Danes consume more butter in the EU but only reached 1 , 8 kilograms / person / year (BD 4), while Mexicans consumption per capita per year to 7 kg, the world's largest, Chile: 3.5 kg / person / year, America: 2, 36 kg / person / year, Peru: 2.5 kg / person / year.
Whether nutrient-rich fruits and imported butter production was long but Vietnam still modest due mainly domestic use, often used as a beverage, few people know processed foods. Previously, most are planted avocado trees scattered in the shade households, barriers in the Central Highlands region, but is now growing interest for commercial development, but not much; Vietnam butter is not available in the list of FAOSTAT statistics. Recently, the People's Committee of Dak Lak Province and scientists and enthusiastic business development efforts, enhance the value of avocados in the hope of developing an additional value of agricultural products for the Central Highlands region.
 

By Vu Trung - STINFO No. 8/2014