The price of vanilla has been growing for six years; in 2012, grams could be bought for 20 cents, and now will have to pay $ 2.5 — for comparison, a gram of 999 silver worth only 50 cents. Last week the price of vanilla jumped by several dollars per ounce (about 31 grams).
Vanilla call the fruit of several species of lianas of the genus Vanílla. Odorous boxes (usually called pods, but from the point of view of Botanical classification, it's wrong) has always been the price — especially when they had to be brought from the New world. The Europeans borrowed from the Aztecs combined vanilla with chocolate, added a combination of milk and finally fell in love with Mexican spice. But in European gardens vanilla doesn't grow: its main pollinators,
In 1841 the twelve-year-old Edmond Albius, a slave to a vanilla plantation in a French colony, guessed pollinate the vanilla flower by hand; he poked with fingers and a stick in the stamen, then the pistil, and harvest. The production of vanilla outside of the area Melion was possible, but hand pollination has put forward new requirement. To the cultivation of vanilla was economically justified, people literally working like bees to vanilla plantations have to agree on very low wages. The low cost of labour and a suitable climate make the island of Madagascar is an ideal place for producing vanilla. In other warm and poor countries — for example, in India farmers prefer vanilla other crops with more stable export prices, and Madagascar is now almost a monopoly.
World production is concentrated in Madagascar and several other Islands; even at home of vanilla in Mexico, she ceased to be a popular crop, especially
Source: Popular mechanics
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