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'''Madagascar Spices is a vanilla producer and farm in Andapa with a processing facility in Sambava. While the company was started by Dylan Randriamihaja in 2015 and began exporting directly to Europe 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 1910.'''
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Dylan's grandfather, Toto, was the first in the family working on vanilla plantations supplying French traders. Dylan's father, Venja, continued supplying the French traders. Shortly after Madagascar's independence in 1960, the 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 new customers. Venja's wife, Bavy, took care of hand pollinating the vanilla orchids at their family owned plantation 15km north west of Andapa.