Editing Avocado (section)

====Cultivation in California====
Avocados were introduced to California from [[Nicaragua]] in the early 1850s, when avocado trees imported from the [[Central American]] country were observed and reported growing near San Gabriel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://avocado.ucr.edu/early-history-avocado-california|title= Early History of the Avocado in California}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/20083015144|title= The Avocado|journal= CABI Databases}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.californiaavocadogrowers.com/sites/default/files/documents/13-World-Avocado-Production-Prospects-California-In-Transition-Fall-2020.pdf|title= World avocado production prospects in California}}</ref> The avocado has since become a successful [[cash crop]]. About {{convert|59000|acre|ha|order=flip|abbr=off}} – as of 2015, some 80% of United States avocado production – is located in [[Southern California]].<ref name="nymag">Sternbergh, Adam, "Avocados Are Toast", [[New York (magazine)|New York magazine]], April 20 – May 3, 2015</ref> 

Avocado is the official fruit of the state of California.<ref>{{Cite web|title=California State Foods Named By Gavin Newsom|publisher=Huffington Post, San Francisco|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/california-state-foods_n_3150928.html|date = 25 April 2013|access-date = 15 April 2015}}</ref> [[Fallbrook, California]], claims, without official recognition, the title of "Avocado Capital of the World" (also claimed by the town of [[Uruapan]] in Mexico<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uruapaninteractivo.com/uruapan.htm |title=::Uruapan:: Uruapan, Michoacan, México |publisher=Uruapaninteractivo.com |access-date=1 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203004605/http://www.uruapaninteractivo.com/uruapan.htm |archive-date=3 February 2014 }}</ref>), and both it and [[Carpinteria, California]], host annual avocado festivals.

The [[California Avocado Commission]] and the [[California Avocado Society]] are the two major grower organizations and [[Calavo Growers]] is a major distributor.