Village Mangoes

The mango trees are growing heavy with fruit in my village this time of year and me and many other volunteers are terribly excited. Soon the markets will be flush with them and mangoes will be eaten seeming without end. My village itself has a fair number of mango trees, a couple near the school, a couple near the kindergarten, maybe more than a dozen scattered arround within walkind distance from my door. The mangoes really started to plump up and look good last month though in my village most are still pretty small. While the small green mangoes are very tart, some are tolerable to be eaten. The children in the village are ALL about them right now. Whenever they have free time they can be found hurling sticks and rocks at the trees, striping them and collecting as many tragically unripe fruits as they can. They then take bites out of all of them, usually finding half of them inedible and throwing them on the ground, and the rest they share. I am not sure about the helath issues with these unripe mangoes but they do cause mouth sores at the least. What i really dont understand is that the village just lets them do it. Those are hundreds of mangos that once mature will be a great source of income and nourishment by all. Money thrown on the ground for cripes sake! That just leads to the fatalist view of the world that id rather not get into right now.