One small mango or papaya provides more than the daily requirement of Vitamin A for children. Vitamin A deficiency threatens an estimated 13 million children with irreversible eye damage and leaves 500 000 children partially or totally blind each year. Many of them eventually die from the deficiency.
Ghana: avocados and other fruits being sold on the
roadside
FAO photo by P. Cenini
- More photos in this series:
- Panama: a farmer checks the papaya fruit
- Malaysia: buying and selling in the local fruit and vegetable market
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- Photofile archive
- Factfile archive
- FAO Media archive
- News & Highlights archive
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