{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "madagascar-mg",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GC-5",
  "GC-6",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "notes": "harvest_windows: empty on purpose. The green-vanilla campaign opens each year by ministerial order, per region and zone (lane F, 2026-09-27); no order is filed. Madagascar as the leading producer: GC-5 and GC-6 (figures not shown).",
 "place": {
  "value": "Madagascar",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:249",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q1019 (Madagascar)"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no growing region is named in a filed source (GC-6 speaks of “small farms on the island”); the page names none either"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "Madagascar",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:250",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": -20,
  "lon": 47,
  "precision": "a representative point for the country (Wikidata P625, a centroid), not a plantation",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q1019 (Madagascar) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:253",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Indian/Antananarivo",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:256",
  "quote": "MG\t-1855+04731\tIndian/Antananarivo",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [],
 "traditions": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no source on Malagasy vanilla traditions is filed; the hand pollination GC-6 describes began on Réunion"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "vanilla-planifolia"
 ],
 "media": [
  "or-8-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-vanilla",
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Madagascar is the leading grower of vanilla on record: a review has much of the world’s natural vanilla coming from small farms on the island.",
  "body": [
   "No harvest season is given: the campaign opens each year by ministerial order, region by region, and no order is filed. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the country, not a plantation."
  ]
 }
}