Japanese Eating Habits for Year-End 2022/New-Year 2023 to Negatively Affect Avocado Sales

Japanese importers are trying to allocate fresh avocado stocks to the wholesale market and retailers by the end of December 3, 2022. Sales of avocados will peak during the Christmas season before noticeably slowing down afterward. Eating habits by the majority of Japanese people, which prefer traditional cuisines peculiar to the period of year-end/new-year, would temporarily lower appetites for tropical food, including avocado.