Avocados are very common in Rwanda. They are everywhere in the village. One can even find avocado trees by the roadside right in the middle of the city of Kigali.
One can buy a regular size avocado in Kigali for 10 cents USD. In the village, where they grow, one can buy one for 5 cents or less. In rich countries an avocado can cost you a US dollar. So an avocado farmer probably receives less than 5 percent of the price that the customer pays.
The individual avocado farmer that grows the popular fruit barely survives. But the buying, shipping and selling of avocados is big business. Is this the kind the world that we like to live in?
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