mangos avocados and papaya are the most important in volume terms these fruit varieties are mainly absorbed by the domestic market and they contribute significantly to nutritional needs of rural and urban populations production of these fruits appears to have remained fairly stable over the past decade little change is expected in avocado production in the period to while papaya and mango will keep their upward trend in the next decade reaching respectively mt and mt about of mango production is exported while only very small amounts of the other fruits find their way to foreign markets it is estimated that about million people are directly or indirectly involved in this sector