The agriculture of Comoros, that is produced in the highlands are used mainly for domestic consumption. The agricultural items from the coastal areas of Comoros are exported hugely for various purposes. Comoros has been the leading country in the production of ylang-ylang for years. The distillation of ylang-ylang produces a perfume, which is very famous in European nations and US. The perfume extracted from ylang-ylang is thus exported in large scale from Comoros. Vanilla is the other agricultural product of Comoros that yields big volume of foreign money for Comoros.
The cloves also formed an export item for Comoros in large scale in the past. But from the later part of 20th century, the production of cloves in Comoros has dropped. Several rural development programs are organized in Comoros by the Government of Comoros in association with other organizations like World Food Program, UN Food and Agriculture Organization to educate the farmers of Comoros to yield maximum agricultural products from the land of Comoros.
