impressive figure although it is important to note that this lack of genetic diversity could very easily be a bad thing if a disease were one day to strike the hass avocado however one final obstacle in the avocados journey to popularity was its name as mentioned there were regional variations to what it was called in the u.s names like alligator pear made it seem strange and unappealing thus to help popularize the fruit in NUMBER_TOKEN the california avocado association decided on and began to push the name avocado to help market it as a side fact the original hass avocado tree from which all such trees are descended today died in NUMBER_TOKEN of root rot but there is a plaque commemorating it in lahabra heights california in the spot where it stood in the subsequent decades the avocado would take off quite rapidly eventually enjoying the popularity it has today today mexico leads the way in avocado production producing NUMBER_TOKEN million tons per year about NUMBER_TOKEN percent of total world production the popularity of this fruit which was once secluded to a single region of the planet is only growing and so these statistics will doubtlessly only grow as well now then ladies and gentlemen i mentioned i had an announcement i have decided to make the food history series a regular series on this channel there will be a food history video every friday at NUMBER_TOKEN p.m est from today september NUMBER_TOKENth to october NUMBER_TOKENth and then we'll go from there so stay tuned for that and i hope you enjoyed this video if so i invite you to come check out the rest of fire of learning and to subscribe to see more videos like this in the future to help with the cost of producing these videos the donation on patreon would be a big help a special thanks to our current patrons once again listed here fire of learning is also on instagram and i have a science channel much like this called lusinox where i will be uploading a special edition of this series so come check that out too thank you for watching
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN now then ladies and gentlemen i mentioned i had an announcement i have decided to make the food history series a regular series on this channel there will be a food history video every friday at NUMBER_TOKEN p.m est from today september NUMBER_TOKENth to october NUMBER_TOKENth and then we'll go from there so stay tuned for that and i hope you enjoyed this video if so i invite you to come check out the rest of fire of learning and to subscribe to see more videos like this in the future to help with the cost of producing these videos the donation on patreon would be a big help a special thanks to our current patrons once again listed here fire of learning is also on instagram and i have a science channel much like this called lusinox where i will be uploading a special edition of this series so come check that out too thank you for watching END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN