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'''Madagascar Spices is a vanilla plantation and producer in Andapa with a processing facility in Sambava. While the company was started by Dylan Randriamihaja in 2015 and began exporting directly to Europe , USA and Canada in the same year, his family has been farming and producing high quality vanilla beans for sale via local distributors and exporters since 19101947.'''

Dylan's grandfather, Toto, was the first in his family working on vanilla plantations, supplying French traders. Dylan's father, Venja, continued supplying French traders. Shortly after Madagascar's independence in 1960, the vanilla trade became dominated by Chinese immigrants who had previously worked on French owned plantations. The Chinese became buyers and exporters of vanilla and were Venja's newfound customers. Venja's wife, Bavy, took care of hand pollinating the vanilla orchids at their family owned plantation 15km north west of Andapa. Today, with the coming of Dylan as 3rd generation of producers Madagascar Spices cultivates, processes and exports vanilla directly to its customers.

The three hectares plantation located close to [[Andapa]] has about 19,000 plants which produces maximum fivetentons of mainly Bourbon and Thahiti vanilla each year. Additionally, some Pompona as well as some Mangitsy Mangitry Ampotony is grown, but which is not intended as a premium export product as it has a lower vanillin content.

In 2015, Dylan started a farmers cooperative named ''Madagascar Natural Products'', or ''MNP'' for short. The cooperarive provides agricultural training and equipment to its members, such as flashlights , boots, machetes and raincoats when needed. Through education and support, MNP's objective is to help its member farmers grow the highest quality gourmet vanilla. As of 2017, there are four member families with eight individual farmers each. In total, 32 farmers located in areas stretching from and around Andapa to [[Sambava]] are part of the cooperative.

During the vanilla processing season from June until August September Madagascar Spices has 25 10 staff members in Andapa and 10 25 in Sambava. The 20th June is Madagascar Spices respects the official start of harvestingopening campaigns. The processing, or so-called curing process of each vanilla pod, takes approximately one monththree months. This includes cooking the pods to retain the aroma for longer, drying, sorting and packaging. The vanilla is then ready for export. Madagascar Spices takes great pride in their end-products that is achived achieved through the highly laborous process from hand-pollination to packaging. Additionally, their products are 100% organic with no use of artificial fertilisers. The company accepts small and large orders with the smallest shipment being 2kg, which can be sent worldwide by [[DHL Sambava|DHL]] or FedEx.