Changes

What can be seen depends on the activities that are happening at the time, which changes varies slightly from season to season. Generally speaking, during between May and June, harvesting the plucking of green vanilla beans are happening happen along the northwest coast around Sambava, Antalaha and Vohemar as well as further into the countryside. At , while at higher altitudes, around Andapa and Marojejy, harvesting usually takes place in July or August.

After harvesting, green vanilla beans are traded at organised market places where buyers will place competing bids for to farmers and cooperatives for the yearly harvest. These markets are regulated and a minimum price is set by the industry and the government, which in 2022 was 75,000 Ar per kilogram of green vanilla. The green vanilla is bought mostly by local exporters who manage the months-long transforming of the green beans beans into the black pods that are most familiar to consumers.

Througout The green vanilla is bought mostly by local exporters who manage the transformations process, also known as the curing, months-long transforming of the green beans beans are graded and grouped into classified based on suitability for different end-uses: Grade A being Gourmet Quality, Grade B Extract quality and Grade C which are also so-called Cuts & Splits. The classifications are based by the level of humidityblack pods that familiar to most people.

Througout the transformation, also known as the curing process, the beans are graded and grouped into based on suitability for different end-uses: Grade A being Gourmet Quality, Grade B Extract quality and Grade C which are also known as Cuts & Splits. The classifications are defined by the level of humidity. Low-humidity beans are suitable for large food processing purposes, since the dryer beans are easily ground into powder and mixed into various food products. Grade B, or Extract grade vanilla beans, is a loose definition for the vanilla beans that are typically set aside intended for the production of vanilla extracts, while Grade A beans, being or gourmet quality, are selected in part for their visual appearance, being unsplit pods as . Quality Grade A beans are usually preferred by chefs and for home baking purposes.