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So it takes seven years before an avocado tree actually produces. You're telling me these cartel guys think they'll live long enough to see profits from newly planted groves? Apple news must be sourcing the Onion again...
Liberal_in_blackface says"Reading is fundamental".
So is privacy..
Reading the actual article doesn't infringe on the reader's privacy in any way, shape or form.
Liberal_in_blackface saysReading the actual article doesn't infringe on the reader's privacy in any way, shape or form.
Soon they were cutting timber day and night, the crash of falling trees echoing throughout the virgin forest. When locals protested, explaining that the area was protected from logging, they were held at gunpoint and ordered to keep quiet.
Stealing wood was just a prelude to a more ambitious plan.
The newcomers, members of a criminal group called the Viagras, were almost certainly clearing the forest to set up a grow operation. They wouldn't be planting marijuana or other crops long favored by Mexican cartels, but something potentially even more profitable: avocados.
Mexico's multibillion-dollar avocado industry, headquartered in Michoacan state, has become a prime target for cartels, which have been seizing farms and clearing protected woodlands to plant their own groves of what locals call "green gold."
https://apple.news/ACg0ObisnQgWvRXXBrDU4Gg