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Stevia - sweet opportunity

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Title Stevia - sweet opportunity
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description The Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) plant is fast winning a place in the market for sugar-substitute sweeteners in North America, Europe and Japan. A native of Paraguay, it is grown traditionally in South Africa, Madagascar and China. Its medicinal values for diabetes, digestive aid and lowering blood pressure are also well-known.

A flurry of media coverage in early 2001 could mean an even brighter future for this stubby plant. Traditional producers are considering extending cultivation as a partial replacement for sugar-cane, and countries as far afield as Canada, Mexico, Pakistan, Brazil and Iran are looking seriously at its potential. As well as growing as an annual in temperate climes, it grows prolifically as a perennial in warm marshy, highland areas, making it suitable for a good number of ACP countries.

Some importing countries only allow it as a dietary supplement , and not a food additive . But a sweetener it is, and there is surely room enough to grab part of the market as well as using it at home.



For an address list of growers, suppliers and processors, write to the editorial team of Spore at Médiateurs (see page 15)

Website: www.rain-tree.com/stevia.htm
The Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) plant is fast winning a place in the market for sugar-substitute sweeteners in North America, Europe and Japan. A native of Paraguay, it is grown traditionally in South Africa, Madagascar and China. Its medicinal...
 
Date 2001
2014-10-16T09:05:57Z
2014-10-16T09:05:57Z
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 2001. Stevia - sweet opportunity. Spore 94. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46228
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99597
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Source Spore