Most people there make a living tending to vanilla beans but also to crops such as rice, bananas and coffee on small plots of ...

In order for the plants to produce beans ... there has greatly reduced its natural habitat. In Madagascar, where over 80% of vanilla is produced, the flowers have to be pollinated by hand.

Vanilla drying in the sun in northern Madagascar. Credit: Wikimedia Commons That’s according to interviews ... Most are no strangers to cyclones and tropical storms, which can bear down on the island ...

From Madagascar to Mexico ... Mexican vanilla refers to the region in which it is grown. The vanilla plant itself can be V.

The global vanilla bean market is forecasted to reach USD 1,373.3 million in 2025 and is projected to climb to USD 2,124.6 ...