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About Vanilla Pods
Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia A.) is a major natural flavor widely used in many industries as food, beverages, sodas, pharmaceutics, cosmetics tobacco and traditional crafts. Vanilla beans originated in Mexico, and in some Central American countries as Costa Rica and Honduras. However, today vanilla beans are cultivated in many areas of the world and the main producing countries are (Fig. 1) Madagascar, Indonesia, China, Comores and in a lesser extent Tonga, Reunion, Turkey and Guadeloupe. In México, the main producing area is located in the Totonacapan, located in the northern part of the state of Veracruz. In recent years the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla have joined Veracruz for production and processing of vanilla beans (Musalem, 2002).
From the Press
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(Rao and Ravishankar, 2000
“Madagascar, where the crop became an important source of income such that Madagascar is now the largest producer of vanilla in the world”
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Curti, 1989
“A major component of the labor force in Madagascar is found in the agricultural sector. In 2000, the vanilla production line in Madagascar employed about 20,000 growers and 5,000 producers.”
The Food Reporter
“Vanilla export represents a large portion of government revenues, thus monitoring vanilla production and vanilla trade in the world became some of the priorities of the governments of Madagascar..”
