Thieves of Madagascar's vanilla

It's a challenging voyage, but there, in the Forest, we find Isadora more Adela. But he doesn't use his machete to chop down branches or vines.

It serves as a defense for his estate against thieves searching for one specific item. The issue has been around for long time; if you don't obey God or vanilla, you will lose everything.

So that we don't die for magnesium In order to protect their vines and antenna, farmers on Madagascar have been sleeping in their fields for months. Shall we stay outside in the cold at night?

On sometimes, we don't stay in the hut. Because it's in the forest, my husband has previously been assaulted while he sleeps, so I keep him awake when I do. We left at first light towards Amani's, a seaside community on the outskirts of a forest.

The orchid flower that produces these Pods only blooms for a few hours each year when it does, which means that it needs to be manually pollinated. Many gardens are filled with vanilla vines, each of which is the product of the devoted care of farmers like Leon.

That is because the only place where bees naturally do it is in Mexico, but farmers also leave other marks on their fields. There is vanilla worth more than $150 just on this one vine.

They're so precious that they've really been branded; there is a Name on here because they're attempting to avoid that and the unusual safety Measure is essential last year. When they are dry, that is how much they'll sell for. The all of Leon's harvest was stolen in full view of the sun.

The criminals swiftly seized their opportunity to take the vanilla while I was working in the rice field, and I screamed out of sadness since we had lost everything.

My family has been struggling all year since I couldn't afford to send my kids to school. As a result, when thieves were in court, things frequently became violent and there were killings in adjacent villages.

Something the Amani's An leader has been attempting to stop More punishment will be meted out to the thieves when they are apprehended, but I am afraid that this may lead to violence, therefore we must protect the students in the schools.

In order to prevent theft all of it is the outcome of wild Price increases for vanilla the price of dried pods has increased by more than 1,000% globally in the past five years. More value than silver However, despite the burglaries and violence

There have been numerous benefits for the people of Madagascar, and many farmers strolling through the community now have plenty of money in their purses.

Due to the energetic atmosphere, you can truly see that things are happening since people are building houses out of superior materials. Children are attending school, and the profits from vanilla are truly changing the world.

Even has a name for it those who have earned money are known as vanilla Nares, and their money is changing. The peasants benefit from places like Amani's because of the sky-high vanilla pricing.

Here, I was able to purchase this sawmill to use the wood to make houses and furnishings. And something much grander: Wow Hold on building sites, I wonder what they're building

So what are you building here, a discotheque? The funds for this construction came from vanilla, but the owner of the vanilla plant doesn't simply cultivate it; he also trades it.

The market town is a hotspot for commissionaires who buy up vanilla and sell it on to exporters, but they still rely on intermediaries to get their vanilla to customers since that is where the major profits are generated.

To Be Continued....