Madagascan Vanilla Trade Controlled By Chinese Businesses 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Papa B for president!

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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...

So French vanilla is really Madagascan vanilla?

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

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

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

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.

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

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 $??

Papa B for President!! 2022

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

This documentary was fascinating. Thank you JP

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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 !?

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

@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

very nice program ! thank you merci

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^^

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

Good share, thanks.

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 ...)

$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

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

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.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING MANY PRAYERS, BLESSINGS FOR THEM!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Good job !

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

Papa B is my hero!

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

GOOD JOB :)

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.

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.

Papa bi's FRENCH TONE is so good

The logic here is you will hate anyone who wants to buy your stuff then stop selling

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

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.

Thank you Pappa B

That arrogant Chinese supervisor telling the workers to hurry up because of the rain will spoil the vanilla beans should have helped them place the vanilla beans in a dry building!

How do you get the subtitles wrong

@17:00 The difference.....

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

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 ?

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.

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

Wow $1.00 a day and then you go to the humiliation to be searched...... WTF..!!!!

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

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.

where can i sell my vanilla pads?

Respect my brother and God bless

Papa B seems happy

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

May God bless papa G he a humble man

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 .

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.

GOD BLESS YOU PAPA B .

That was some TSA style groping😳

How can I get in touch with Papa B ?

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

We're on the largest video platform rn, talking about monopoly?

If the Chinese merchants all leave Madagascar today. There won't be any Frenchmen there to replace them. That's what's kept the wages low.

These fair trade cats needs to contact PAPA B!

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

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

Planting the world's most expensive spices and make profit for 500 euros per month. Something's ain't not right.

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

I haven’t seen a vanilla before it’s looks like green been.

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