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Madagascar

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.

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.

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The record

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Place
Madagascar
documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

the place name as the harvest globe’s data spells it; the Wikidata item is Q1019 (Madagascar)

confidence A

Region
not on record
not on record

no growing region is named in a filed source (GC-6 speaks of “small farms on the island”); the page names none either

Country
Madagascar
documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Coordinates
-20, 47 (a representative point for the country (Wikidata P625, a centroid), not a plantation)
documented

Wikidata Q1019 (Madagascar) P625

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Time zone
Indian/Antananarivo
documented

MG -1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo

TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); pu · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Traditions
not on record
not on record

no source on Malagasy vanilla traditions is filed; the hand pollination GC-6 describes began on Réunion

Harvest, as a source states it
    Grows here

    Films and plates

    • OR-8 · vanilla: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-8 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
      a render-time texture (Forest Floor; a render input only): "Forest Floor", eye-candy.xyz (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0; a render-time texture (Bark Brown 02; a render input only): "Bark Brown 02", Rob Tuytel (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

    Claims register

    Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.

    • softened · The island is now one of the leading growers of vanilla. (was: The island now produces 80% of the world’s supply.)
      documented · register row 2291

      GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

      the register’s after-column reads “grows most of the world’s vanilla”; the page now reads “one of the leading growers”. GC-5 gives Madagascar “43.9 % of the total output” (GC-5) and GC-6 “up to 75% of the world’s natural vanilla” (GC-6): both contradict the old “80 %” and support “a leading grower”

      where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

      confidence B

    • softened · Madagascar: A leading grower (was: Madagascar share: 80% global)
      documented · register row 2294

      GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

      the register’s after-column reads “Most of the world’s”; the page now reads “A leading grower”. GC-5 gives Madagascar “43.9 % of the total output” (GC-5) and GC-6 “up to 75% of the world’s natural vanilla” (GC-6): both contradict the old “80 %” and support “a leading grower”

      where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

      confidence B

    • softened · The island is now one of the leading growers of vanilla. (was: The island now produces 80% of the world’s supply.)
      documented · register row 733

      GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

      softened by the house’s review 2026-09-27 (row 2291). GC-5 gives Madagascar “43.9 % of the total output” (GC-5) and GC-6 “up to 75% of the world’s natural vanilla” (GC-6): both contradict the old “80 %” and support “a leading grower”

      where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

      confidence B

    • softened · Madagascar: A leading grower (was: Madagascar share 80% global)
      documented · register row 734

      GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF · read 2026-09-30

      the facts list (row 2294 records the softening). GC-5 gives Madagascar “43.9 % of the total output” (GC-5) and GC-6 “up to 75% of the world’s natural vanilla” (GC-6): both contradict the old “80 %” and support “a leading grower”

      where the site says it: /materials, “Madagascar Vanilla”

      confidence B

    Sources

    1. GC-5 · Cuan-Escobar TA, Cuellar-Sánchez A, Gómez-Velázquez HDJ, Monribot-Villanueva JL, Guerrero-Analco JA, Gutiérrez-Díaz I, Luna-Vital DA. Effect of different killing methods during curing on the phytochemical and bacterial composition of Vanilla planifolia using multi-omic approaches. Food Chemistry: X 2025;26:102269. DOI 10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102269. PMID 40034982. PMCID PMC11872573. doi.org/10.1016/j.fochx.2025.102269 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0 (open access, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed
    2. GC-6 · de Oliveira RT, da Silva Oliveira JP, Macedo AF. Vanilla beyond Vanilla planifolia and Vanilla × tahitensis: Taxonomy and Historical Notes, Reproductive Biology, and Metabolites. Plants (Basel) 2022;11(23):3311. DOI 10.3390/plants11233311. PMID 36501350. PMCID PMC9739750. doi.org/10.3390/plants11233311 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY (open access, MDPI, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed
    3. GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia article of each place; wbgetentities API, read 2026-09-27. Values rounded to 5 decimals by the fetch script; representative points (city, region or country centroid), not field locations. www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&… · read 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata data licence)
    4. TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); public domain. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/zone.tab · read 2026-09-27 · public domain

    These records are published under CC BY 4.0.

    this record as data: /data/origin/madagascar-mg.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence B