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== Specialties of the region ==
* '''Crafts: …'''** basketry, carpentry
* '''Cuisine: …'''** coconut based cuisine (octopus with coconut, coconut fish, coconut cassava leaves, ''sahoaba'' - banana with coconut,...)
* Food: …'''Vegetables and fruits'''** coconut, banana, breadfruit, lychees, jackfruit, ''anamalao'' (flowering herb), ''angivy'' (little eggplant)** clove, largest producer in Madagascar** vanilla, 1st producer in Toamasina province** coffee
* '''Farming: …'''** cattle** poultry (chicken and waterfowl) ** beekeeping** pigs (more and more popular)
* '''Market: …'''** takes place during the ''fady'' days of Tuesday and Thursday, when it is not allowed to work on the fields, especially to grow rice. It is gaining momentum during the green vanilla season in the months of June to September.
== Population ==