Mioty Voajanahary is a company owned by John William James, a current member of AmCham's Board of Directors. Located in Fitroafana Talatamaty, they produce and export medicinal plants from Madagascar, mainly dried Aloe macroclada or "Vahona" in Malagasy, the main ingredient in natural stem cell enhancement products. Mioty Voajanahary works with 8 associations around the highlands from Antsirabe to Moramanga, to the west on NR4, and north-west and north-east of Antananarivo, cultivating and harvesting for their leaf supplies. Tons of leaves are transported every week to their production facility where they are washed and the gel extracted. The gel is then dried and packaged for export. Mioty's customers produce retail products of bottles of capsules containing dried vahona.

Mioty Voajanahary is dedicated to being economically, socially and environmentally responsible

Mioty's vision is "to find and develop and effective natural medicines from Madagascar for the benefit of all Malagasy and people around the world." Providing unique and proven quality products at good prices allows Mioty Voajanahary to give back to Madagascar in a variety of ways.

The company offers its 47 employees good work in a good environment for good wages and benefits. Each association, composed of up to 20 members, is paid a generous price for harvesting leaves while requiring that 10% of the income goes toward community education efforts in the form of books, teacher salaries and school buildings. Mioty is proud to have sponsored their first University of Antananarivo graduate school student, who studied funguses in the soil which work together with vahona. Mioty also plants trees  and fights against burning practices. The company often helps the Fitroafana community with projects.

John James states, " Mioty Voajanahary finds entrepreneurial Association members and teaches them what they need to operate, including management skills, organization and leadership skills, proper harvesting, legal needs for operations, and bank accounts. We have watched each Association improve the standard of living in their villages with pride. All are doing well."

Dried vahona: a new product to a worldwide market

Sales of dried vahona are just beginning and increasing steadily. Stem cell therapies and benefits are becoming well-known. The safe pure natural product from Madagascar will be in demand as it works better than any other natural product for stem cell enhancement.

Mioty will be growing over for the foreseeable future. "We continue to increase vahona cultivation efforts and add production capacity. This means more jobs and income both at our production facility and for each Association cultivating vahona around the highlands," added John James.

"Madagascar has many unique plants with potential medicinal properties. Mioty Voajanahary intends to find additional products, demonstrate their efficacy, and produce them for worldwide markets. We are working on acquiring investment to allow expansion to meet future demand. The world will have access to new effective natural medicines from Madagascar and many Malagasy will benefit."