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To how low will the stevia dry leave price reduce?--Top Stevia Manufacturer, GL

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To how low will the stevia dry leave price reduce?

[ Part of speech in China Stevia Association Conference 2012

 

Stevia Cultivation in China in the past 3 years

In the past 3 years, the stevia became a Hot world in China, Not just because the stevia regulation status experienced a tremendous liberation worldwide, but also, the Stevia industry resonate the China agricultural policy: Natural, High Value added, Technology innovation.

 

Driven and encouraged by local government, more and more farmers are involved in this new lovely sweet leaves. It is much easier for them to aquire advanced new stevia breeding, cultivation manual book, and most importantly, some kind of fixed contract with those main stevia manufacturer, or with some neighbor  stevia dry leaves companies and business men.

 

The stevia cultivation area is amounted to 30,000 hectares in China in 2011, and produce 80,000 tons dry leaves. Beside the traditional big five area, Jiangsu, Anhui, Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, some dry leaves are cultivated in new area like Hubei, Yunnan, and even in Xingjiang.

 

Current Stevia Dry Leave Price

The average price of stevia dry leaves is RMB12 per kilo. Theoretically, the stevia dry leave price can be expressed by the following:

Price=Average Main farm produce local price* 120%* other factors

Other factors include:

Content of Total steviol glycoside in the dry leaves,

Conent of Reb-A in the dry leaves,

Specis of the stevia dry leaves,

Location and transportation,

Market trend

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GL Stevia Cultivation in 2012

Since 2006, GL Stevia start to invest on seedling of stevia basement,  and established the stevia chain: company-basement-farmer union-farmer.the stevia dry leave price keep stable in the past 4 years. Due to rapid increasing manufacturer capacity, GL Stevia kept stevia and Reb-A unit price down by 50%.

This year, we are paying more attention to build up reliable stevia supply chain as follows,

 

First In 2012, GL Stevia is working closely with Local government, to apply Agriculture Integration Fund from China Ministry of Finance, for the project of 1500 mu (100 hectares) of stevia standard cultivation base.

 

Second, to invite farmer union leaders to visit our GL Stevia breeding/seedling basement. to exchange the information about market demand, regulation status, dry leave price trend, and stevia dry leave standard, and so on, and answer their questions. It will ease the farmers worries and keep the cultivation area stable.

 

Third, to jointly build up a local dry leave warehouse, for better service to stevia farmers. It will also strengthen GL Stevia on site quality control of dry leaves, and better storage conditions.

 

 

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