Orchardists in the southwest of Western Australia (WA) are happy this season from looming record avocado crop, fueling oriental market desires.
According to Trevor Bendotti of Bendotti Avocados via the ABC, WA is heading towards the “largest season on record.”
If the projection actualizes, the state will beat the 2023-24 harvest that tailed off at 65,000 tonnes.
The bumper harvest will sharply contrast 2024-25’s lacklustre 36,889 tonnes, itself a third of the national output at 131,385 tonnes.
Australia as a whole had a robust 2023-24 harvest at a comfortable 150,913 tonnes, triggering an export flood.
In that season, export demand for WA hiked by 400% from 2022-23’s, bringing home some A$38.8 million ($25.2 million) in shipment revenue.
Japan bought A$4.26 million ($2.77 million) while the Gulf contributed purchases worth A$970,000 ($629,724).
Enter China
One major exception in booming oriental demand is China, which is now the talk of town concerning the 2025-26 marketing season.
WA’s marketers are already calling Beijing their next port of call and are busy making formal trade overtures.
Avocados Australia has already brokered memoranda of understanding (MOUs) worth A$250 million ($162.3 million) with Shanghai’s markets.
China so far has not designated Australia with trade priority status, leaving exporters to negotiate behind the bilateral barrier.
This is despite Aussie avos already gaining acceptance as disease-free in Asia, especially in Japan and Thailand.
Demand in Asia owes to gaining search for healthy fruits like avocados, which offer healthy fats and vitamins.
In a good year, Australia ships 20,000 tonnes or a 7th of its total production, to mainly Asian destinations. Western Australia remains the second biggest national avocado source by state and currently boasts lucrative specialty fruit markets such as the Middle East. The below statistics expand the state’s avo story via production data.
Western Australia Avocado Statistics
Western Australia enjoys a mild climate similar to that of Mediterranean countries, hence its exceptional avocado cultivation. As of 2022, 2,500 hectares of land here contained avocado trees. According to Avocados Australia, this western state comes second with a 28% annual national production share after Queensland (58%), as of 2024-25. Below is a tabling of historical production statuses between the two states:
| Season | Queensland [tonnes] | Western Australia [tonnes] |
| 2024-25 | 76,501 | 36,889 |
| 2023-24 | 64,079 | 65,801 |
| 2022-23 | 74,957 | 20,782 |
| 2021-22 | 58,640 | 47,316 |
| 2020-21 | 53,987 | 13,547 |
How much does WA earn from avocado exports?
WA earned A$8.38 million ($5.44 million) from avocado exports in 2022, per Western Australia’s Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development (DPIRD). Key 2022 markets included Malaysia with A$3.42 million ($2.22 million), Singapore with A$2.89 million ($1.88 million) and Hong Kong with A$1.6 million ($1.039 million).
Are Australia’s export avos expensive?
One of the redeeming factors for especially Western Australia’s avocados is that they follow global trends, which elevates prices. In 2024, for example, low yields spiked domestic export prices by 13%, to A$5.18 ($3.36) a kg. This helped boost the revenue for the 10 to 15% of the total avocado production that Australia exports.