Few French companies are going to be vanilla importers and exporters. The steps to become a vanilla exporter are long, even very long. First of all, you have to have a plantation, like Arnaud Vanilla Plantation. Then you have to grow vanilla like our article how vanilla grows. It can take 20 years between the project and the profitability. That's longer than pepper.
But the Comptoir de Toamasina will explain you the steps to become a vanilla exporter, it's the same step as to be an exporter of açai for example.
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The quality of Vanille de Madagascar, despite the fact that it is now available at low prices, must be maintained so that customers can enjoy the taste and fragrance of this exceptional spice.
If you want to know everything about the history of vanilla. Le Comptoir de Toamasina offers you articles like the price of vanilla and especially the classification of vanilla. You will discover articles how to plant vanilla but also everything to know about its preparation.
Because vanilla is of a green color before undergoing a preparation to become black and a refining so that it is ready to be exported.
Unlike the vanilla tahitensis discover our article on the varieties of vanilla, the vanilla planifolia will split when it is too ripe.
So the harvest must be done in a precise way. Because it is during the last week that the vanilla plant will give the vanillin, the vanilla taste to the pod.
It will be put in boiling water so that the vanilla undergoes a thermal shock then it will be put to the steaming, then drying in the sun and finally refining a process that we explain you in the preparation of the green vanilla.
Growing vanilla takes a lot of work and patience.
Before you even consider exporting vanilla, keep in mind that it takes 5 years for the vanilla tree to become mature. It takes 2 years after planting for it to produce a flower and a vanilla bean.
It can take 5 years for the grower to learn how to dry the vanilla.
In Brazil, our tests show that we can have two harvests per year, but in Madagascar he will have one harvest.
After that, you have to be able to sell your vanilla.
But before that the vanilla beans are also separated according to their color, size, moisture content and other characteristics, as well as their intended use and origin.
More than 80% of the world's vanilla supply comes from Madagascar, making it a highly sought-after vanilla.
Comptoir de Toamasina as a vanilla specialist will reveal the secret of vanilla export.
The cocoa flavor of Madagascar vanilla is a feature of the vanilla planifolia.
This vanilla will have a dark brown or black color.
Discover our article on what is the Bourbon vanilla, here you will know everything about the Bourbon AOC.
In Madagascar you have three qualities of vanilla
Depending on the country, the name of the quality can vary between gourmet, extra or grade A.
Madagascar vanilla is the vanilla that offers the best value for money on the market.
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How vanilla export works
When your vanilla beans are ready, you either work with a cooperative that buys your product and will export it if you are too small.
But here are the steps to exporting vanilla:
Apply to be a vanilla exporting company in Brazil you must have a Radar in Madagascar a patent. Brazil proposes a simple solution, it is the carrier for example the post office which will make the documents of exports and emissions of the documents.
The customer places an order and the exporter receives his order
The exporter will issue an invoice in dollars or euros and insure the invoice against currency exchange. The customer will receive the amount in local currency if his currency appreciates
The customer must pay the exporter on his account in the exporter's country because the exporter must prove the repatriation of currency
The goods are sent to the forwarder who takes care of the administrative procedures
The forwarder validates the documents and sends the goods to the carrier
The airline or sea freight company will carry out the transport
The customs clearance agent collects the goods and clears them here the customs of the importer's country can check the documents and the goods
The freight forwarder proceeds to the liquidation of the customs and taxes and sends the goods to the customer via his carrier who collects the goods or a new carrier
*The vanilla is transported to the workshop
It is then checked and analyses can be done.
