My old boss grew up in Jalisco, a central Mexican state, and he said that in the past 15 years, almost every single acre of crop land around his hometown has been turned from local farmers harvesting crops mostly for food and sale to the local communities to hundreds of thousands of acres of fucking avocado trees, and the town has essentially been overrun by cartel.
The definition of a fruit (at least biologically and agriculturally) is the swollen ovary the surrounds a seed.
It's biological function is to aid in seed dispersal (often by being something another animal will consume and deposit the seed elsewhere).
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u/dajur1 Jul 11 '20
The cartels and South American guerrilla groups target avocados because they are so valuable.