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Vanilla beans maturing on vanilla vines in a Kerala plantation in India. This is where the vanilla flavour you taste in your ice creams comes from! Vanilla is a tropical orchid, cultivated for its pleasant flavour, which is one of the costliest spices in the international market. Though more than 50 species of vanilla exist, only three are important as sources of vanillin. Vanilla planifolia Andrews is the most preferred commercially and therefore, cultivated widely. The Indian farmers started vanilla cultivation in the mid- to late 1990s, prompted, mainly by the falling profits from rubber and coffee. Besides, vanilla could be grown even on small plots of land and the initial investment required is small. Today, India stands sixth among the world's eight vanilla-exporting nations, up from eighth in 1998. In 1998, India contributed just 0.034 percent of world vanilla exports. Indian exports of vanilla multiplied rapidly thereafter and by 2002, it accounted for 1.86 percent of world vanilla exports. Between 1998 and 2002, India's vanilla exports registered a phenomenal annual average growth rate of 139.68 percent. In 1997, a kilogram of green vanilla beans earned US $3. During 2003, The Indian traders were paying more than $70 for a kilogram of vanilla beans. Karnataka leads in the country's vanilla cultivation followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Sixty percent of the 1,000 hectares under vanilla cultivation in India, is in Karnataka. Source: http://www.keralaagriculture.gov.in/htmle/bankableagriprojects/ph%5Cvanilla.htm This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at rupindang@gmail.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com