Avocados Australia Limited is the Peak Industry Body in Australia for avocados. We are a 'not for profit' membership-based organisation. Our members are avocado growers along with associated businesses and industry people. Avocados Australia seeks to work with all parts of the chain from production through to the consumer. By working together we seek to continually improve the ability of growers to provide a healthy, profitable and safe product for all consumers. As part of this continual improvement we guide a “research & development” and “marketing and promotion” program for the Australian Avocado industry. The Australian avocado industry comprises of 800+ growers across the country and in 2017/2018 produced 77,032 tonnes of avocados worth an estimated gross value of production (GVP) of $AUD557 million. Key growing areas are North, Central and Southern Queensland, Northern and Central New South Wales, the Sunraysia or Tristate area (South Australia, Victoria and South Western New South Wales, as well as Tasmania) and Western Australia.