Madagascan Vanilla Trade Controlled By Chinese Businesses

Chinese Vanilla - How Chinese entrepreneurs have taken control of Madagascar's Vanilla trade, and what this means for the local.
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Madagascar, the world's main source of vanilla, has seen traditional farming methods upset by a recent craving for the spice in China. While the Madagascan government stands by, Chinese profiteers wreak havoc on the trade.
Vanilla was introduced to Madagascar by French colonisers in the 19th century, which brought cheap Chinese labour to the farms. Papa Be is a 66-year-old descendent of this first wave of Chinese immigrants. Like his father before him he practises artisanal methods and takes pride in his crop. But his trade is a precarious one. "As growers, we're in the palm of those who have all the money - the owners and the buyers", he explains. Now his homeland has discovered a taste for vanilla, which has led to a surge in demand for the spice. Enter a second wave of Chinese immigrants. The new arrivals are business people who control the wholesale buying and export of the spice and profit from cheap local labour. A lack of contracts with workers makes it easy to fire disobedient employees. "That's how you manage workers here", says Cindy, an investor who moved to Madagascar with the second arrival of Chinese immigrants in the 1990s. For President Rajaonarimampianina, who came to power in a military coup in 2009, the unpopular Chinese newcomers are a necessary evil. He needs foreign investment: "Our markets are completely open, and that means China too", he says.
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  • @Chimel31
    @Chimel315 жыл бұрын

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

  • @randomdrumbeat936

    @randomdrumbeat936

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's called Alibaba! LOL.

  • @chima6291

    @chima6291

    5 жыл бұрын

    Both Alibaba & AliExpress does this. However, it is not so easy to do business. You need capital, sales channel, quality control, customer service and everything.

  • @Mochab001

    @Mochab001

    5 жыл бұрын

    YES!

  • @fadrium1464

    @fadrium1464

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well group of farmers (cooperation) and their family can arrange that, if they get enough knowledge how to do it, just like just exploit Alibaba, eBay etc.

  • @rac3r5

    @rac3r5

    3 жыл бұрын

    By western, you mean international consumers. The rest of the world consumes vanilla too. What they need is a COOP.

  • @akarmoussaittizi3012
    @akarmoussaittizi3012 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sifuelylyamuya9698

    @sifuelylyamuya9698

    Жыл бұрын

    he is true father very carering one...i appreciate him you can believe is a chinese by origin

  • @4schoolly
    @4schoolly5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @davidsquall351
    @davidsquall3519 жыл бұрын

    Papa B seems like a cool guy

  • @suzanabrams1

    @suzanabrams1

    9 жыл бұрын

    davidsquall351 Yes, was thinking the same. He's open-hearted.

  • @davidsquall351

    @davidsquall351

    8 жыл бұрын

    +NSCLady None of those people give a shit about anything but them selves.

  • @jamescook7094

    @jamescook7094

    7 жыл бұрын

    right tho!

  • @sashakartus3435

    @sashakartus3435

    6 жыл бұрын

    Somebody here has commented that they care only about themselves. How you can criticise like that !! Did you live there or anywhere else? I do not think so. Did you watch this video to the end? At least ??

  • @lalakuma9

    @lalakuma9

    5 жыл бұрын

    The priest refused to baptize him because he asked too many questions. What a way to suppress a kid's independent thinking :(

  • @javakuppa3346
    @javakuppa33469 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @CrakenFlux

    @CrakenFlux

    5 жыл бұрын

    fucking incredible dude, you way out there.. that racist shit is gonna lose its edge from too much wear.... Java described the man the way he described himself and on top said he was proud of his heritage and behaved as such... i am telling you, someday soon you are going to scream wolf and no one will come running, going to create a backlash, know what i mean?

  • @Jazzmarcel

    @Jazzmarcel

    5 жыл бұрын

    A dam racist idiot you are!........normal I guess coming for a weak gene savage,

  • @Natasha___.

    @Natasha___.

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true, that village looks like paradise and he has the kindest, happiest face I've ever seen.

  • @edwardladrera86
    @edwardladrera865 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jamie.777

    @jamie.777

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree, the hog tie was justice

  • @noforcedlabour9208
    @noforcedlabour92089 жыл бұрын

    Papa B for president!

  • @spirithawk2418

    @spirithawk2418

    6 жыл бұрын

    No Forcedlabour hell yes. He's the Man

  • @fadrium1464

    @fadrium1464

    4 жыл бұрын

    But will they accept Chinese son as president? For conservative people that's sounds like treat.

  • @AL-mm4vq
    @AL-mm4vq5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @collinhennessy1521
    @collinhennessy15216 жыл бұрын

    So French vanilla is really Madagascan vanilla?

  • @gsheverything_2716

    @gsheverything_2716

    5 жыл бұрын

    I be darned

  • @gsheverything_2716

    @gsheverything_2716

    5 жыл бұрын

    @T Mc that's a damn lie, these people take, they don't bring shit

  • @MC-gt6yp

    @MC-gt6yp

    5 жыл бұрын

    There was no vanilla grown in France. Vanilla is an orchid that grows in tropical humid climates.

  • @proudafricanamerican7586

    @proudafricanamerican7586

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wow..

  • @Mochab001

    @Mochab001

    5 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @fortroadmusic
    @fortroadmusic5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @douglasdaugherty1726
    @douglasdaugherty17267 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @swillmerchant9886

    @swillmerchant9886

    2 жыл бұрын

    and then it shot up to hundreds of dollars. hope papa B had benefited from the price boom.

  • @alissadoan6520
    @alissadoan65207 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @redcommierad2447

    @redcommierad2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alissa Doan well that wouldn’t be much capitalistic but i agree with you

  • @rakotondrazakatojoherilant6403

    @rakotondrazakatojoherilant6403

    3 жыл бұрын

    the church can't work smoothly without these litlle money

  • @texasyankee3512
    @texasyankee35125 жыл бұрын

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

  • @africanclassicalmusic

    @africanclassicalmusic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Texas Yankee exactly

  • @Arsen4155

    @Arsen4155

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. I watched Tongan vanilla farmers and they did it. It will increase added value so the price will be higher

  • @beckyluvstoscrapnsew
    @beckyluvstoscrapnsew9 жыл бұрын

    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 $??

  • @coolspot18

    @coolspot18

    5 жыл бұрын

    Each part of the journey takes it cut - if you look at wholesale farm pricing for other foods it's also pretty low, but the markup may not be as great since the journey is closer and supply greater.

  • @Gluluman
    @Gluluman5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Jazzmarcel

    @Jazzmarcel

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gluluman to most, writing a long persuasive comments will have an effect on the ignorant and mis-educated BUT, all it takes is a little bit knowledge of euRIPeans or Caucasian history to see clearly what you are, a liar!......a liar by omission! Just take a look at the details and spot where you are taking shit! True, Africa is in a hell of a mess! Who’s fault is it? The Caucasian and his mixed cousin the Arab! What you fear is that my people will learn about the dangers of the spiritual poison of religion and wake up and its coming that explains why you decided to try to spread confusion here by mixing truth with lies! At the very least, the Chinese will fuck up the blood sucking parasitic CFA which is crippled the economy of 14 African countries! Sir, you know perfectly well that world war really started the day you criminal defects got on boats to colonize the planet! The reason Chinese are having success because they have realized this simple fact!...... YOUR economists and ecologists are screaming because they know that Capitalism and technology is a short lived perceived success and only true progress and prosperity is to be in harmony and balance with others and nature! Something you types have never had! ........got that!

  • @hoangtran-gf3gd

    @hoangtran-gf3gd

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gluluman: I share your view on the ambitious and self-serving Chinese Belt & Road Initiative. I strongly believe that it's a spectacular magic trick of the century being pulled by China! It's unbelievable that these nations somehow are convinced to take up massive Chinese debts and spend them on Chinese companies to build a Chinese centered international infrastructure network, which would obviously facilitate cripplingly cheap Chinese manufactured goods to flood their markets while the reverse trade flows from these markets to China would largely be precious raw materials, low-value handicrafts and probably seafoods and agricultural produces! Well, any sober and thinking nation could easily see that it's a terrible deal and, therefore, the cost of building the above Belt and Road Initiative should largely be picked up by China, not the other way around!

  • @dancinglily4919

    @dancinglily4919

    3 жыл бұрын

    Something you don't value and others value and then reach a common value to form a business deal. If you don't like, just don't sell, there is no need to pour your hatred to the people who is doing business with you. Otherwise, no business no life

  • @cliffontheroad

    @cliffontheroad

    Ай бұрын

    2024 China is having problems caused by their ruling party. The belt and road projects, some, are halted. Imitation Vanilla is superior (6 vs $14) and cheaper. Sounds like the politicians are hurting the farmers. That presidents speech is not being done, so he is the fool (but likes what $$ he gets from the deals.) Yes, someone else should deal with the farmers, but maybe the gvmt would halt new buyers / shipping.

  • @msshoeka5573
    @msshoeka55735 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrianSmith-yq7ys
    @BrianSmith-yq7ys6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TipiWaiEn
    @TipiWaiEn8 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kunzitewelshite3344

    @kunzitewelshite3344

    6 жыл бұрын

    Papa BUSH..!

  • @rdromzirazali351

    @rdromzirazali351

    3 жыл бұрын

    those are Malaysian communists bearing Malaysia nationalty(on paper)

  • @treeman_mj
    @treeman_mj5 жыл бұрын

    This documentary was fascinating. Thank you JP

  • @ESMOKER1980
    @ESMOKER19805 жыл бұрын

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

  • @apscoradiales

    @apscoradiales

    5 жыл бұрын

    There is no law requiring that they give money. They give it because they are decent folks who think about the well being of everybody in the community and because their love for God. Many people around the World could learn that by watching this video, including you!

  • @Longmachao

    @Longmachao

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@apscoradiales How does giving the little money they have help the community? by lining the pocket of the church? They would help the community more by saving the money or invest it in their own future. By raising their own economic status it will improve business and open opportunity for other.

  • @redcommierad2447

    @redcommierad2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    Apsco Radiales that money goes to the church

  • @Zero-gh9lp

    @Zero-gh9lp

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@apscoradiales Sadly there is also no law that requires churches to pay taxes and no oversight to prove that the money actually goes to the community. Goes a long way to explain the extensive corruption of religious organisations.

  • @cohall46
    @cohall465 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cooblur
    @cooblur5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @spirithawk2418
    @spirithawk24186 жыл бұрын

    Papa B for President!! 2022

  • @golfinguna
    @golfinguna5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Prolegomena1781
    @Prolegomena17819 жыл бұрын

    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^^

  • @CptMikeTango1

    @CptMikeTango1

    7 жыл бұрын

    The translation is not synched, he told more than what is written. Even what is written is not really accurate

  • @jackbeans5147
    @jackbeans51475 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ivoivic2448
    @ivoivic24483 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @uncleruckus5121
    @uncleruckus51216 жыл бұрын

    @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

  • @charleshueckstaedt5064

    @charleshueckstaedt5064

    5 жыл бұрын

    @uncle ive read your posts on other vids ,,i agree with you .

  • @redcommierad2447

    @redcommierad2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    Uncle Ruckus Malagasy not madagascans

  • @galejones7598
    @galejones75985 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU FOR SHARING MANY PRAYERS, BLESSINGS FOR THEM!

  • @uncleruckus5121
    @uncleruckus51216 жыл бұрын

    very nice program ! thank you merci

  • @javakuppa3346
    @javakuppa33469 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @quanfung5958

    @quanfung5958

    6 жыл бұрын

    You right !! The French are still COLONIZERS in 14 African countries !!

  • @muzzle9999

    @muzzle9999

    6 жыл бұрын

    You are right in every word!

  • @brianmay3852

    @brianmay3852

    6 жыл бұрын

    EXACTLY! both sides have their own interest and eager to criticize each other.

  • @fidykely

    @fidykely

    6 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree. If this was the reality, all the french companies would have left our country long time ago. This french guy is biased

  • @omgitsamirulVEVO

    @omgitsamirulVEVO

    6 жыл бұрын

    I agree. The chinese may be bad but the french is fucking bad

  • @uncleruckus5121
    @uncleruckus51216 жыл бұрын

    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 !?

  • @b1aflatoxin
    @b1aflatoxin5 жыл бұрын

    Good share, thanks.

  • @goingnatural4022
    @goingnatural40226 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jasonwilliam2125
    @jasonwilliam21253 жыл бұрын

    $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

  • @dawnfkahamilton-doerfler6982
    @dawnfkahamilton-doerfler69826 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @editatrinio8580
    @editatrinio85805 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @baunilhabio1418
    @baunilhabio14182 ай бұрын

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

  • @selayargreenchannel6620
    @selayargreenchannel6620 Жыл бұрын

    Good job !

  • @yanj111
    @yanj1115 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bulkyplant
    @bulkyplant Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Pappa B

  • @jcdova29
    @jcdova295 жыл бұрын

    Papa B is my hero!

  • @citan554
    @citan5542 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @mrteiken
    @mrteiken9 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DucaTech
    @DucaTech5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @redcommierad2447

    @redcommierad2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    dhg1234 we need the chinese not the europeans. Trading with chinese can be big benefit if you know what to do

  • @arewanewztv765

    @arewanewztv765

    Жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately the government in west African countries not only madagasca are so wicked.

  • @RichardsWorld
    @RichardsWorld6 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @henryjohnson280

    @henryjohnson280

    6 жыл бұрын

    When Africans comes in contact with virtually any other ethnic group, they always come out on the bottom. Why do you suppose that is?

  • @afendiafendi9642

    @afendiafendi9642

    6 жыл бұрын

    Richard's World Traveler work hard and smart idiot...

  • @kautschukm4381

    @kautschukm4381

    6 жыл бұрын

    guess how the French treated them ? Tell me how the Europeans treated the Indians, Aboriginies,Africans ? This is how Capitalism works my friend Richard.

  • @walkingphilosopher

    @walkingphilosopher

    6 жыл бұрын

    @Richard's World Traveler I feel you. But let me give my most honest answer. Most locals work only to eat. On the other hand, the Chinese or any other economically successful immigrants work not solely to eat but to also pursue greatness through wealth. Both groups work hard. But their different driving force as reason to work set them apart. I am placing it here not to debate, but to create awareness and to invite other races to join the game because I frankly think that the locals really deserve more.

  • @Nonenone-rj9yp

    @Nonenone-rj9yp

    6 жыл бұрын

    The market infrastructure there is so poor there must be a better way for the farmers to sell to the global community. Someone should setup a online market place, with a quality control system and eliminate the middle men

  • @xiaotie304
    @xiaotie3046 жыл бұрын

    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 ...)

  • @craigarnold9005

    @craigarnold9005

    5 жыл бұрын

    Xiatie,, catch up with the times USA exports oil,,,,,, and when their stockpiles go up ,, price goes down,,,,,Chinese now have dropped their "tariff coz they cant get enuf off Iran,,,,, and this show is a bout vanilla!!!!!!Its plain and simple Chinese theft off the farmer ,, supported by a dick head corrupt leader..

  • @bmo5082

    @bmo5082

    5 жыл бұрын

    USA is the world's top producer of oil

  • @javakuppa3346
    @javakuppa33469 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @domingotres5243

    @domingotres5243

    5 жыл бұрын

    Money... money... money... that is the only thing Chineses know. If you are a "master" it means that you have a slave working for you.

  • @nicolasvillamil7523

    @nicolasvillamil7523

    5 жыл бұрын

    You can be a successful entrepreneur without being a condescending bitch.

  • @alraylazado3366

    @alraylazado3366

    5 жыл бұрын

    22 people agreed on this condescending bitch. imagine that.

  • @ThePriscillaninja

    @ThePriscillaninja

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, being a "master" at the expense of others...

  • @jenniferray8569

    @jenniferray8569

    5 жыл бұрын

    the chinese way is quantity over quality .. with slave like working conditions in both africa and china. The ones in power dont care about peoples life or the planet, if china becomes bigger we're doomed and so your planet, because the chinese dont give a damn about future gen, or our planet, only cares about money and themselfs.

  • @kpzcbttp
    @kpzcbttp9 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Njk7899
    @Njk78999 жыл бұрын

    GOOD JOB :)

  • @watjejanssen7535
    @watjejanssen75356 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sOmebOdyrand0m
    @sOmebOdyrand0m5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kaykayigor8568
    @kaykayigor85684 жыл бұрын

    Papa bi's FRENCH TONE is so good

  • @JIANYM36
    @JIANYM365 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @jakeshaw6827
    @jakeshaw68275 жыл бұрын

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

  • @watever9751

    @watever9751

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well... 1 Euro is apparently 80% (Or standard) wages for them.

  • @rakotondrazakatojoherilant6403
    @rakotondrazakatojoherilant64033 жыл бұрын

    GOD BLESS YOU PAPA B .

  • @alpacino307
    @alpacino3073 жыл бұрын

    Respect my brother and God bless

  • @aripsuzuran94
    @aripsuzuran942 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @alextyy

    @alextyy

    10 ай бұрын

    They are locals, Chinese people immigrated to Madagascar... Madagascans are mixed people... The employees also are partly Asians.

  • @mahjowee20
    @mahjowee205 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @africanclassicalmusic

    @africanclassicalmusic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Marj Garcia can we organise something....?

  • @rac3r5
    @rac3r53 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @funny-video-YouTube-channel
    @funny-video-YouTube-channel5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @EddieOdora

    @EddieOdora

    5 жыл бұрын

    the cost of running and maintaining a large fridge would probably be too much for them

  • @MassDynamic
    @MassDynamic5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @weidu5293
    @weidu52939 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ratsivalakaflowerbud

    @ratsivalakaflowerbud

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Wei du They should give them a decent salary then ! Plain and simple ! Duh ! She's working hard ?! Counting the money, giving orders, frisking... ? Give me a break !

  • @alphamale292

    @alphamale292

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Fanja Ratsivalaka I agree with you 100% and the love of money is indeed the root of all evil.

  • @jaimeeclair8999

    @jaimeeclair8999

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahahahahaha, Chinese employees don't steal! GTFOH! So, who are the millions of prisoners in Chinese prisons. You know, like the prisoners making millions of dance videos on youtube?

  • @africanlion8585
    @africanlion85855 жыл бұрын

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

  • @saltyaces8621
    @saltyaces86215 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @redcommierad2447

    @redcommierad2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    Salty Aces the translation was correct enough

  • @sto2779
    @sto27792 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @mercykav7488
    @mercykav74885 жыл бұрын

    May God bless papa G he a humble man

  • @rosellemontalbo9731
    @rosellemontalbo97313 жыл бұрын

    where can i sell my vanilla pads?

  • @gueriwasagueriwasa7920
    @gueriwasagueriwasa7920 Жыл бұрын

    How can I get in touch with Papa B ?

  • @ragtaghero84
    @ragtaghero849 жыл бұрын

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

  • @YoniNadi
    @YoniNadi5 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @sangkang6294
    @sangkang62943 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @needmoreramsay
    @needmoreramsay5 жыл бұрын

    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 ?

  • @needmoreramsay

    @needmoreramsay

    5 жыл бұрын

    9:51 Did she say RAVIOLI ?? An Asian selling Italian food in Africa. Lol.

  • @coreyjohnson7777
    @coreyjohnson77775 жыл бұрын

    How do you get the subtitles wrong

  • @Maleblade
    @Maleblade9 жыл бұрын

    @17:00 The difference.....

  • @dancinglily4919
    @dancinglily49193 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HollieMoodie
    @HollieMoodie5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Dodo-ym8cc

    @Dodo-ym8cc

    3 жыл бұрын

    that is not true. Everything comes from China, most is good quality

  • @michaeldallas
    @michaeldallas5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @giaquintoandrea3651
    @giaquintoandrea36516 жыл бұрын

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

  • @0311ohrah
    @0311ohrah Жыл бұрын

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

  • @giekimani534
    @giekimani5346 жыл бұрын

    Papa B seems happy

  • @Rcg1382
    @Rcg13829 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @dojean1883

    @dojean1883

    6 жыл бұрын

    the only products from the western crusadic tribes: crusadic witches, crusadic rats, crusadic totems, crusadic sorceries....... the world should burn these western products into ash......

  • @maxparker1321

    @maxparker1321

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gavigg75 already on it 😁

  • @SherrainePhillips

    @SherrainePhillips

    5 жыл бұрын

    Why don't you go report on those stories since you care so much?

  • @calvyncraven1141

    @calvyncraven1141

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Gavigg75 you can start first by throwing out your phone since it's made in china.

  • @calvyncraven1141

    @calvyncraven1141

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Gavigg75 even Japanese phones are made in China, stupid.

  • @tokenpoptart3750
    @tokenpoptart37505 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gerardlales836
    @gerardlales8365 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dzunglu7184
    @dzunglu71842 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @JohntechFL
    @JohntechFL5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @windowpane
    @windowpane5 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @redcommierad2447

    @redcommierad2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    windowpane is this sarcastic?XD

  • @journeyman
    @journeyman9 жыл бұрын

    How Europe's cast off chickens are poisoning Benin: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nWpo0M-FYd3dhto.html For more from our series on the Secrets of Globalisation: kzread.info/head/PLlGSlkijht5iOsH-UDVXxMTetNYBCfOjm For more of this week's top stories: kzread.info/head/PLlGSlkijht5gyYNkhTOmpP-3AKawhjkdv

  • @nthernstar8558
    @nthernstar85585 жыл бұрын

    That was some TSA style groping😳

  • @amehel0
    @amehel05 жыл бұрын

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

  • @pedrodurty47
    @pedrodurty475 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MistressOP
    @MistressOP6 жыл бұрын

    These fair trade cats needs to contact PAPA B!

  • @imirrawashere
    @imirrawashere Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @infoworld7706
    @infoworld77065 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @gilagarden2535
    @gilagarden2535 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @niksack
    @niksack6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lurtzuruk-hai2595
    @lurtzuruk-hai25955 жыл бұрын

    Because the chinese are protected by the law, they have the connectioms, they have the money, they own the means of production and they are the comercial intermediaries. You have various ways of exploitation and discrimination: commercial, labour, juridic, linguistic, etc. Jist mantain yoir workers under certain limits that makes them reproduce their condition and be alienated while you accumulate. This is partly possible because of one simple reason, that is that Madagascar has a colonial structure, a colonial country is a capitalist country, therefore a classist country, a racist country etc. The new chinese are different from the old ones, you can see these don't get mixed with black people, they are closed groups, this way there is less distribution of wealth and less social mobility which means more opportunities to exploit workers. Another important aspect to analyze is that of the culture of work, chinese and french who come from big industrial and complex societies with a greater social distance and a indirect satisfaction of their necesities think and plan in long terms while madagascans have more inmediate relationships, closer trustworthy relationships, other ways of social cooperation and security which allow them for short term thought and other ways of regulating the emotions and resisting civilization as a way of changing the conduct and making pathetic french and chinese people. Finally, that french guy talking about comminist chinese has no idea what he is talking about, if chinese were comunist they would be socializing the means of production instead of privatizing them.

  • @boyishot69
    @boyishot692 жыл бұрын

    Good is, that today min. Price is 250$/Kg

  • @rayanjensen7634
    @rayanjensen76346 жыл бұрын

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

  • @redcommierad2447

    @redcommierad2447

    4 жыл бұрын

    RAYAN JENSEN she is talking normally to them. That’s how the people in sambava talk. The place where she is.

  • @crowned.king.immortal
    @crowned.king.immortal5 жыл бұрын

    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