There should be a web site where farmers can sell their top quality vanilla directly to the Western consumers at full retail price.

Papa B seems like a cool guy

I like the mixed race man. His village is so picturesque and he looks like a kind thoughtful intelligent man. His wife is very lucky. I wish him well.

Papa B dug 10 wells. wow he is such a kind man. bless his soul. he looks so happy with his vanilla pods.

Cindy can only abuse the natives until they have enough of her. While growing up, we had a Chinese neighbor engaged in buying coconut meat. They too were abusive with their workers. They were so hated in the neighborhood my mother would not even allow me to play with their son of my age. When they were robbed in the middle of the night, no neighbor answered their call for help. The couple were beaten up and hog tied and the neighbors thought, they deserved it.

The wiseness of Papa Be is heartwarming and I have met such people in Madagscar ,there are not a lot like him fortunately but enough to bring some light in these villages by being so smart and caring.

2000 Years ago, the Arabs enslaved and colonized Africans. From the year 1450 to 1960 the Europeans enslaved and colonized Africans. From the year 1960 to 2000 the invisible hand of the cold war enslaved and colonized Africans. From 2000 and ongoing the Chinese are enslaving, manipulating and colonizing Africans. Due to his lack of savvy, know how, his predisposition to exploitation, the Chinese have taken advantage of Africa and its rich resources, in fact based on available data both in terms of land acquisition and natural resources over $27 trillion has been unjustly taken through various deals- yet Africans have gotten a meager $280 billion out of those investments. Take the case of Senegal, where the Chinese have recently bought out right their international Airport located in Yioff Senegal, then loan the country $11 billion to build an new airport, nearly 10 times the cost of building an international Airport. In a country with a meager $31 billion PPP [GDP], repaying that loan will be nearly impossible. What the Chinese really want is the Yioff land in Senegal among others . Sadly Senegal will soon join the rank of countries deceived by China the likes of Sri Lanka were the government signed a 99-year lease with the Chinese government to operate their ports and airports. Case in point, the Chinese have and are currently building the biggest deep-seaport port in East Africa near Mombassa Kenya, coupled with biggest military based in Djibouti Africa, millions of miles of rails track throughout East Africa (Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia etc… their core objective is both cleared and nefarious, in that the Chinese plant to eventually dump trillion of dollars worth the cheaply made Chinese goods throughout Africa in the Belt and Road Initiative using their tentacles rail network. Recently the Chinese bought out right four additional international airports in West Africa (in Burkina Faso, Togo, the Guinea Bissau, as well as Sierra Leone and Cameroon). In Senegal for instance to build the airport the Chinese loaned Senegal $11 billions1/3 of the country GDP and 11 times the cost of building. When I first visited Senegal in 1985, the country was a fine republic with great potential, recently however (2015), Senegal has become a dump of humanity, the poverty, the decay and years of corruption and incompetence due to the inaptitude of both current and former president Wade. We can most certainly predict, soon enough Senegal like many other Africans will be bounded in chains, this time around however by the Chinese.

So French vanilla is really Madagascan vanilla?

Papa B for president!

The government needs to regulate and sell their products to benefit the farmers. It seems like they have no control over the market. It always comes down to the poor people.

they need the internet to do some direct sales...

Of course... they have nothing and yet they still are asked to give money at the church! Typical!

A Growers Cooperative needs to be established for the wholesale marketing outside of the country -- certified organic, and indigenous cultivated and processed.

For the 2016 Madagascar Vanilla Bean crop, the price for green vanilla beans started at USD $30.00/kg and quickly went to $60.00/kg. By the end of the green vanilla bean campaign, the selling price was up to $72.00/kg.

last time I went looking for vanilla it was $9.99 Australian for about 5 pods...don't know what that is per kg but it must be about $600 or there abouts...and the growers get $??

Wow, those Chinese are treating them like slaves in their own country. Why does it have to be the Chinese work smart and make most of the money, and the locals work very hard for almost nothing?

I think the vacuum packaging is great they can hold back supply if the Chinese pay them little for their crops

Papa B just has one of those energies that impacts everyone around him positively, I dig it

Papa B speak french very well, meanwhile chinese in Malaysia speak bahasa like they just came from mainland

The french writer is so biased in the way he speaks of the Chinese . He is right in that the Chinese don't care what you do with the money they give you when doing business. But to imply that the French were better or more ethical is painting a false picture.

the title is so misleading! I can see anything related market control by Chinese

Papa B for President!! 2022

This Frenchman talked badly about Chinese as if French colonized Madgasgar with a good intention to benefit only local people. French people definitely will be bitter about others who try to share part of the vanilla profit. Again, what is wrong if Chinese want to work hard to succeed? The Chinese woman searches employees to prevent them from stealing, yes, that is sad, believe me, the boss in China never search their employee since most of Chinese employees do not steal. Stealing should be the first cause to be blamed.

That was great . May God bless Papa B and his villages

This documentary was fascinating. Thank you JP

You can have all the raw materials but when you have no way to export it/sell it... You get middle-men.

So the chinese employer checking their employee for theft . Yet their the one stealing from them. I feel bad for those poor hardworking people who gor exploited by others in their own country

Hilarious translation from 18:25 on - explains in a 40 sec speech: "Be careful not to pick green vanilla before it is ripe, by careful to not to use vacuum packaging" Madagascar's president got his shit together^^

This is typical of most countries, if a person is born with poor bones then they very seldom move off that level.

in drying the vanilla fruit they should adapt the Japanese Hawaiian way of drying coffee beans, they put the beans in a rack with a sliding roof made of clear glass, if it rains they just slide the roof in place keeping the coffee beans dry.

Very interesting to see the cultural differences as applied to economics.

@16:12 no ties with madagascans... this is EXACTLY why in my country the Philippines the supreme court in the 1950s wrote a paper on the naturalization of foreigners wishing to become filipinos. they stated you must be sure that they having a desire and a love for the Philippines, her people and culture and have mingled in society and do not wish to become Filipinos to take advantage of the Philippines economically or just to exploit her natural resources. that was written specifically for that woman @ 16:12

What if they had a frozen produce, to keep it fresh ?

It's all about the food chain. That's the Truth about the world. U.S and UK does not produce that much oil, but yet, they have the Oil futures pricing power in the market, they decide when to decrease the oil price to crash Russia and middle east ... Are you really so surprised by the producers do not have the pricing power but trader or buyer have? It happens everyday. (I don't think it's morally right though ...)

Yeah and in Australia you pay $3-4 for two crappy pods

5 has grower and 100 euros a month (1200 a year) and middle man makes 60,000 in a season?? and the workers ? 1 euro per day and in usa people complain about 10 dollars per hour !?

I thought he was catching a butterfly... It turned out to be money lol... Churches always after one thing $$$$..

Funny, I just bought a bottle of vanilla extract Fairtrade organic 100ml £6-00. It`s mixed with water and sugar so how much vanilla is actually in there is anybody`s guess. Made in Australia.

I pay 5€ for 1 dried vanilla bean in the supermarket. These people should get into business of repackaging vanilla, forget producing it. Apparenltly it raises the price 10x.

very nice program ! thank you merci

I just want to know what will happen to Madagascar if French or Chinese left the country. Will they be able to independently develop themselves into a rich country? Advancement takes hard work and time. Madagascar had lots of time. What were they doing before the French and Chinese came over? I'm trying to compare Madagascar to Taiwan for example. Taiwan was able to develop itself into a rich nation, and it was colonized by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. It had more struggles than Madagascar with very little resources, but it was able to transform itself. It manufactures electronic parts, petrochemical products, one of the of the highest educated people on earth. Another example was Singapore. It was colonized by Chinese and British and was briefly occupied by Japanese during WWII, but it's the country with highest income per capita in the OECD. Again, Singapore has very little resources. What brings the country wealth and greatness is the determination of its people - the hard work and sacrifice and perseverance. The government had to make harsh choices but it helped got the country to where it is today. So again, why Madagascar failed where other nations of similar size and history of colonization were able to succeed.

Is it possible to use seeds from the Vanilla pods to grw Vanilla Orchid ../?

Good share, thanks.

Say what you want about the Chinese but one thing they got going on is their business/commercial skills.....the Chinese are all about the hustle....just go to any country in the world and it's not hard to find a Chinese person with his or her own business....trying to be their own masters...being an entrepreneur is not easy! It takes courage and hard work.

Will you run out of fertile land for planting more vanilla if Chinese purchase goes up? How long does the hard labor last from Picking to shipping? I think UN should make sure everyone Gets a fair wage according to how hard They sweat and toil. InUSA pure vanilla costs $7-9. For 2 ounces. Liquid form.

Good job !

THANK YOU FOR SHARING MANY PRAYERS, BLESSINGS FOR THEM!

great docu,love to go there one day great nature ,food etc.

Nice. Again hitting China though. What about making a story about the foreign people mining in Afganistan's mountains and sending back home through their military cargo planes which nobody knows what is it? maybe gold? perhaps plutonium? Another story is tankers that are leaving Libya. Btw, Libya got the finest oil in the world.

$3 a kilo in 2015 but in 2016 the wholesale price went up to $400 a kilo. If the guy managed another year hed have been very wealthy for a local

Does anyone know the name of the song theyre singing at the very end of the video? It's been in my head for years and would love to know. Thanks

"Vanilla makes up 35% of Madagascar's exports" B.S. More like 5%

Seems like there are too many middle men in the vanilla business. They need to organize, and have direct to consumer access. Its also sad that nobody speaks the indigenous language here.

GOOD JOB :)

Those products from the vanilla probably most sell to western countries. Do you understand me? If the Chinese factories can have a good profit, the payment to Madagascar farmer will be higher. But that's impossible because the western buyers wouldn't pay that much to the Chinese. So here the Chinese become the bad guys, and the real buyers of those vanilla goods blame the Chinese for offering to little to the vanilla farmers. Same goes to the blame of sweatshop in China or other developing countries, the westerners blame the sweatshop but never willing to pay more to buy the products which can make the workers better. I call this hypocrite.

it's up to the citizens and the gov. to bargain for better prices. if gov. invests into the education of its people and it's own food supply, the citizens will have more bargaining power.

Papa B is my hero!

Thank you Pappa B

I'd switch the old man to be the president in a second. That's a guy that cares about his people and country. He's not interested in money!

Im sure its pretty hard to respect your boss when you are getting paid 1 Euro a day

how bout the thought of lets take responsibility for the way our life is! Stop blaming someone else. It is pure greed from every level. I didn't see any locals taking responsibility or caring about their own community. Take back community and get the damn governments out of your business. White, black, yellow,red should not matter but that seems to still be an issue with many. I feel for the farmers everywhere, it is the same here in the usa too, farmers are taken advantage of here. This is disgusting and i do understand many hands are tied but we have to start at a community level first. Take care of each other and fuck the governments for they are only out for themselves. Take back our communities is a good place to start. Stop using race for it goes FAR deeper then that but this is what those that have been running things long before the "white" peoples came to other countries want, to keep us all divided. We have to move beyond this or it will continue to be the same ol shit. I am not here to bash anyone but i feel for all those that have been displaced by others. We have all been lied to so know who the "enemy" really is and love your brothers and sisters and show compassion to all and let us stop blaming others and take back our power for we give it away when we blame others, that is all i am saying. I love this Earth and her people and we need to come together not use race as a reason for hate, we are all related even those that kill for greed.

@17:00 The difference.....

Is there an update or follow up on the progress of this story? Very sad exploitation. Considering here in Australia we pay $11 for 2 vanilla pods. Hopefully there are more fair trade companies investing in farms like Papa Be and his fellow rural farmers

The last part made me cry. So much faith for nothing. I hope the children get to go to school.

12:47 WHAT A B*TCH!

This is a perfect example of how different cultures and races can integrate and live in harmony. Create an economy, import workers willingly, introduce them to the native culture but create a comfortable region where they can settle in and call home. Then become an important, productive part of the nation. Why can't we dominate that model in most nation's in the world ?

Every product the Chinese touch, the quality immediately goes down.

Papa bi's FRENCH TONE is so good

"their speed has saved thousands of euros" gets paid a dollar day, could get fired at any second, by slaving invading chinese.

the presidents speech at 18:05 - can anyone verify if the translated text is correct? it just seems that he was talking a lot more about other things and for what he apparently said, i don't quite understand why the audience applauded him?

They would get more by creating a direct premium brand from specific farmers to the foodie world in Europe and USA. i.e the Co-Op model. It depends if the farmers are actually allowed to sell on "completely open" "world markets." Doubtful since the farmers aren't allowed to even control their own growing season.

Amazing this is still going on in the age of the internet.

Why the French there for so long period, local still don't be have adequate drinking water?

An excellent production. Papa B is very eloquent. I am humbled by his humility.

This is not just in there this is all over the world - I had to share the pool yesterday in Kingston with a whole Chinese Jamaican family in Kingston dem stink like shit -

What is the possibility of getting in touch with vanilla producers in Madagascar, to exchange experience, exchange, etc...

How can i contact Papa B I am going to visit Madagascar

where can i sell my vanilla pads?

How do you get the subtitles wrong

Respect my brother and God bless

How can I get in touch with Papa B ?

Why does the quality of everything the chinese touch immediately turn to s***? They shouldn't be allowed near expensive and rare products, they'll immediately ruin them.

The farmer makes 3 euro per kilo and the middle guy sells 40 euro per kilo. I'm little behind my math but 1333% is pretty good return of investment.

Expensive commodity, farmers and growers are left behind with prices squash to their lowest. This has been the way of life in trades of many third world countries. There’s too many middle men having their fair shares, their cuts is getting bigger. When in short supply, will it be worth in gold? No surprise there.

I know this is 4 years earlier than your other post on the same topic, Madagascar vanilla and I love how you portray the Chinese as evil and the Madagascans as victims in this one, and in the newer video, the French as the saviors and the Madagascans as people who squander all their hard earned cash. It's so underhandedly Racist and I LOVE IT. SUBSCRIBED!

GOD BLESS YOU PAPA B .

Why does one of the body guard have an australian kangaroo road sign stiched to his vest?

May God bless papa G he a humble man

Why don't people simply buy directly from quality vanilla bean producers? I know one thing or a fact, I know there must be some European/American based runned businesses in Madagascar to make premium Vanilla, else no one would ever buy them. Someone needs to make an App or a business platform just for buying top notch Vanilla directly from serious vanilla cultivators so that all of the quality vanilla producers does not loose out or fade away.

These fair trade cats needs to contact PAPA B!

6:25 20 years and she still dosnt know he isnt chinese

Respect is earned not given . Yet again the government won’t help their own . Shame on them . €3 per kilo for the farmers/growers . I’m discussed at this pat down by the buyers . How do we help people ? when they aren’t told what we pay .

Papa B seems happy

That govt is forcing them to harvest by date to drive the cost as high as possible.

"He who pays the piper, calls the tune". The Chinese have to come to work and make money. This is their way and has always been how they operate......Madagascans should learn from them and since they are the producers of vanilla, beat them at their own game (lol)......

Just look at how that lilttle Chinese lady is talking to the locals

they need a local computer with internet access ...go amazon or ebay...175.00-300.00 usd for 1us pound of cured vanilla beans depending on quality. ship direct...make more money

0:36 Those kids are like 13 and smoking. I know it's not uncommon but it's shocking to see something like that now that I'm an adult.

That was some TSA style groping😳

need to figure out a way to get the money to the farmers. if you consolidate the farmers into "one" then they can set the price. They need to "organize" or they'll be exploited forever.