Patrick Malley, who took the Young Horticulturist of the Year title in 2014, with new season avocados at his family's Onyx Capital orchard at Maungatapere which will be picked soon by his avocado harvesting company Onyx Horticulture Ltd. Photo / John Stone
Avocados are around $5.99 each in Whangarei supermarkets, but the cost of the popular fruit is expected to ease as the new 2016-17 season harvest begins this month, weather permitting.
NZ Avocado chief executive Jen Scoular told The Country current high prices for avocados were for fruit at the tail
end of the season.
"You wouldn't get asparagus for $1.99 at this time of the year either," she said.
Ms Scoular pointed out only New Zealand-grown avocados are sold in this country and none are frozen.
"They are stored on the tree."