BEAN SERENE
Oct 20, 2021
3 minutes
Words Jennifer Stackhouse
High-value tropical crops are attracting interest around the world and one that’s leading the pack is vanilla.
Though it was long thought unsuited to climates outside its tropical homelands, growers everywhere are looking at how to produce this valuable plant under protected cropping.
One of the world’s leading agricultural research centres, Wageningen University in the Netherlands, is conducting trials growing vanilla undercover and some local growers are already producing crops.
As well as being able to produce a
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