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Vanilla - more valuable than gold

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Dagmar Zindel | Thuku W. Kariuki
November 1, 2019

Vanilla can be found in many products we use every day. But there's relatively little of it on the world market and prices are astronomical. It's now more valuable than silver. And that ought to be good news to the farmers who grow it in places like Tanzania. But it's anything but easy money.

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