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MacAvo’s Dr. Chris Searle is one of Australia's leading avocado and macadamia consultants. He has been providing advice to avocado and macadamia growers, nursery operators, investors, peak industry bodies, government agencies, national and international corporations all over Australia and Asia for two decades.
Chris has an extensive background in tree crop research and has worked in key roles at Australia’s premier research institutions (including CSIRO, University of Queensland and Department of Agriculture & Fisheries QLD) as well as some of the world’s largest macadamia processing businesses (MPC, Suncoast Gold Macadamias and Stahmann Farms) where he provided practical, on-farm assistance to more than half of Australia’s macadamia growers in all major production regions from Mackay in QLD’s north to the NSW Northern Rivers.
At MacAvo Consulting, he provides agronomic, economic and general management advice to some of Australia’s largest macadamia and avocado producers and has a special interest in nursery and orchard establishment and optimisation. Chris is passionate about helping growers and investors increase their productivity and profitability using the latest on-farm innovation and technology.
He regularly tours the top-producing macadamia regions of Australia, South Africa and China and has extensive knowledge of Australia’s new and evolving macadamia growing regions including Mackay, Emerald and Rockhampton in QLD. He specialises in advising growers and investors on the conversion of cane to macadamias.
Chris has also led large scale feasibility studies into avocado production in Vietnam and Indonesia and completed due diligence for the purchase of thousands of hectares of macadamias across Australia.
He is based in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia’s largest producer of macadamias and home to the world’s largest macadamia business & processing facility. Read Chris' in-depth bio below...