Rocketing vanilla prices bought Madagascan farmer Berlin Ranary a hot pink sofa,...
Global demand for vanilla is so insatiable, however, that the dwindling quality has had little effect on price, although big buyers now try to avoid buying on the open market.
“We do not sleep. We are barely eating. Mosquitoes bite us. My body is tired,” he said, holding a section of bare vine from which thieves plucked three kilos of green vanilla a week ago. Vanilla farmer Berlin Ranary poses for a photograph as he holds a spear and a shotgun on his vanilla plantation, near his home in the village of Marovato, Madagascar June 27, 2019. REUTERS/Hereward Holland
“We are conscious of the issues affecting the vanilla industry and local communities in Madagascar,” a Nestle spokesman said. “Almost 100% of our vanilla is traceable back to specific vanilla orchards.”In mid-June, weeks before the official harvest in Madagascar, vanilla pods hang from the orchid vine like green fingers.
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