
Some information:
- Vanilla production in madagascar: 1000 tons (2002), 600 T (2003), 1700 T (2004)
- Meaning 5 to 7 times more of green vanilla beans
- World Rank: 1
- Other producers: Indonesia; Mexico; Tahiti; Comoros; Reunion Island, Uganda, China, India, New Guinea.
The harvest of the vanilla was quite impossible due to a problem on the artificial fecundation of the plants