Import af små mængder planter og planteprodukter m.m., som er til eget brug, er ikke omfattet af krav om certifkat og kontrol, når forsendelsen medbringes i bagagen i forbindelse med rejsen. En beskrivelse af hvilke mængder planter og planteprodukter m.v., der helt frit kan indføres i bagage findes i de såkaldte "håndbagageregler".

ned skrev:

Hejsa, er ny på denne site, men finder den meget nyttig og informativ,
derfor må dette være stedet at spørge:
Vil det være muligt at købe (til overkommelig pris) ca 2 kg Vanillestænger på et grøntmarked i Thailand, er er det lovligt at medbringe til Danmark, så man pludselig ikke får noget konfiskeret i tolden?

moerk5002 skrev:

Har spurgt min thai kone og hun siger du kun kan købe vanilla i pulver. Hun har aldrig set det i stænger.

birkedhoj skrev:

tak for link. Jeg medtager nemlig div frø fra Thailand. Bl.a. Tagetes frø som fruen kalder "dræber tagetes" Og siger det ikke er lovligt p.g.a. spredning af arter.

Ole

ned skrev:
Foreløbig tak til alle der har svaret/hjulpet, Nu har jeg set at der dyrkes Vanilla planter derude, så mon ikke også det skulle være muligt at købe frugten, har bl.a. fået frysetørrede jordbær fra Thailand, og de smager kanon,

The Totonac people, who inhabit the Mazatlan Valley on the Gulf Coast of Mexico in the present-day state of Veracruz, were the first to cultivate vanilla. According to Totonac mythology, the tropical orchid was born when Princess Xanat, forbidden by her father from marrying a mortal, fled to the forest with her lover. The lovers were captured and beheaded. Where their blood touched the ground, the vine of the tropical orchid grew.[3]
Drawing of Vanilla from the Florentine Codex (ca. 1580) and description of its use and properties written in the Nahuatl language.
In the fifteenth century, Aztecs invading from the central highlands of Mexico conquered the Totonacs, and soon developed a taste for the vanilla bean. They named the bean "tlilxochitl", or "black flower", after the mature bean, which shrivels and turns black shortly after it is picked. Subjugated by the Aztecs, the Totonacs paid tribute by sending vanilla beans to the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
Until the mid-19th century, Mexico was the chief producer of vanilla. In 1819, however, French entrepreneurs shipped vanilla beans to the islands of Réunion and Mauritius in hopes of producing vanilla there. After Edmond Albius discovered how to pollinate the flowers quickly by hand, the pods began to thrive. Soon, the tropical orchids were sent from Réunion Island to the Comoros Islands and Madagascar, along with instructions for pollinating them. By 1898, Madagascar, Réunion, and the Comoros Islands produced 200 metric tons of vanilla beans, about 80% of world production. According to the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation, Madagascar is currently responsible for the vast majority of the world's bourbon vanilla production[12] and 58% of the world total vanilla bean production.
The market price of vanilla rose dramatically in the late 1970s after a tropical cyclone ravaged key croplands. Prices remained high through the early 1980s despite the introduction of Indonesian vanilla. In the mid-1980s, the cartel that had controlled vanilla prices and distribution since its creation in 1930 disbanded.[13] Prices dropped 70% over the next few years, to nearly US$20 per kilogram; prices rose sharply again after tropical cyclone Hudah struck Madagascar in April 2000. The cyclone, political instability, and poor weather in the third year drove vanilla prices to an astonishing US$500 per kilogram in 2004, bringing new countries into the vanilla industry. A good crop, coupled with decreased demand caused by the production of imitation vanilla, pushed the market price down to the $40 per kilogram range in the middle of 2005. By 2010, prices were down to US$20/per kilo.
Madagascar (especially the fertile Sava region) accounts for much of the global production of vanilla. Mexico, once the leading producer of natural vanilla, with an annual 500 tons, produced only 10 tons of vanilla in 2006. An estimated 95% of "vanilla" products are artificially flavored with vanillin derived from lignin instead of vanilla beans.[14]