According to its own statements, the world's largest avocado producer, Mexico, is not allowed to deliver avocados to the USA until further notice.

According to a statement from the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, the northern neighboring state stopped imports of the green fruit after a US animal and plant health inspector in the Mexican state of Michoacán received a threatening phone call.

The import ban became known on the weekend of the Super Bowl football final, when a particularly large number of people in the USA traditionally prepare the avocado cream guacamole.

Michoacán, the only Mexican state fully authorized by the US authorities to export avocados, has suffered, like all of Mexico, from a lot of violence.

Much of the violence is at the hands of cartels and gangs involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping and distribution wars.

The government sent around 1,000 soldiers to Michoacán during the week.

In the past six weeks, producers from the western state had exported 135,000 tons of avocados to the United States, according to the Department of Agriculture.

In Mexico, where avocados are of cultural and economic importance, around 1.5 million tons of avocados are harvested each year.