Get smashing: avocado growers want consumers to buy more amid fruit glut

Can you have too much smashed avo? Avocados Australia wants to tap into the 20% of the population who are not regularly buying the fruit. Photograph: Manuta/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Avocado growers are pleading with customers to buy more of the fruit, as a glut in supply sends prices to a historic low.

Across the country, the oversupply of avocados has seen prices drop dramatically – with the fruit going for as little as $1 in some stores.