In Madagascar, the largest exporter of vanilla in the world , a living green gold annually 80 000 farmers, mainly in the Sava region, on the coast of Madagascar, the famous hill of vanilla. The small town of Antalaha, became its economic center, was once a fishing village without incident before settlers Reunion introduce the cultivation of vanilla in the late nineteenth century. Today the towers are springing up like mushrooms and set themselves up around the plantations. Workshops sort are under close surveillance. The gold fever grows green most farmers out of their rice to throw in the vanilla plantations.
Madagascar's coast Vanilla is highly subject to weather conditions that affect the world price of the aromatic plant. In 2000, a cyclone had destroyed 80% of Madagascar's vanilla crop, pushing up the price of vanilla up to 300 dollars a kilo. (Extract "Vanilla, Madagascar green gold" , Ushuaia No. 10)
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