date:Apr 05, 2012
and The Telegraph reports thatvanilla crops are down in India and Mexico, two of the worlds major suppliers. In Mexico, vanilla crops dropped off by a staggering 90 percent.
The problems with commodity shortages never seem to stop with the shortage itself news of the shortage is starting to cause a run on vanilla as commodity traders stock up on Madagascar vanilla to beat rising prices (and rising, they most certainly are):
International commodity traders are thought to be stocking up earl