Stevia Growing Symposium

All you need to know about…

How to grow Stevia in Developing and Emerging Countries:

Economic & Technological View

 

Friday, October 29th 2010

 

After the success of the First World Congress on Stevia, many producers who come from classical agriculture (weath growing, sugar cane growing, sugar beet growing, tobacco growing…) wonder how they can switch to Stevia Growing.

 

All you need to know about this field will be showcased in Malta on October 29^th, 2010.

-          What is Stevia?

-      Is it profitable to grow Stevia? (Yield, sustainability, perspective of productivity…)

-          How to get a sustainable Stevia growing?

-          How to switch to a sustainable exploitation?

-          Which are the most efficient technologies?

-          How to adapt the growing to climate

 

 

The aims of the Stevia Growing Symposium are:

 

• To give an overall view to all people who wants to switch their culture (wheat growing, sugar cane growing, sugar beet growing, tobacco growing…) to Stevia growing (growing sustainability, yield, more efficient technologies…)
• To provide answers concerning the economic and technological view
• To allow breeders and/or cooperatives to form their opinion on Stevia Growing
• To discuss about the development opportunity to emerging countries and developing countries
• To promote exchange between industrial and growers

 

 

This symposium is dedicated to start up, tobacco growers, cereal farmers, wheat farmers, sugar beet farmers, sugar tree farmers, researcher and all other companies interested in Stevia growing.

 

The second part of the symposium gets onto the subject of emerging countries: new opportunity for development. Therefore ISANH will invite these countries to discuss about this main issue.

 

 

Preprogram

 

 

Session 1

Economical view of Stevia’s production

 

 

9.30 Economical View: perspective of investment and profitability

 

• Which is Stevia yield in comparison to classical growing (wheat growing, sugar cane growing, sugar beet growing, tobacco growing…)?
• Is it relevant to grow Stevia?
• Budgetary cost of stevia production
• How to fit out your exploitation?
• Yield of Stevia growing
• What is the capital budget for this investment?

 

Session 2

Technological view of Stevia Growing

Keys to success

 

 

10.00 How to adapt Stevia growing to specific country?

• What are the more efficient growing technologies?
• The best Stevia soil and climate
• What is the Stevia’s amount of water ?
• How to get a sustainable stevia growing? Which is the best stevia variety to get most sweetness?
• How to choose its seeds? Sprouts?
• What are the planting secrets? (Time to sow the seeds, how to dig stevia leaves, which fertilizer…)
• The most efficient Stevia Extraction to get the best flavour

 

10.30 Classical Agiculture VS sprouts Culture

 

• Advantages of the sprout culture of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni
• What are the possibilities?
• What are the possible uses of this method?

Dr Yaroslav Shevschenko, Institute of Food Technology and Food Chemistry, Berlin, Germany

 

 

10.30 Juice Break- Poster Session

 

 Stevia juices Tasting Bar

 

Business to Business Session

 

 

11.00 The growing of Stevia: biological and practical issues

 

• Which parameters can influence the concentration of steviol glycosides in the Stevia plant?
• Which are the optimal growing conditions to get the best harvest?
  

Mr Stijn Ceunen, Laboratory of Functional Biology of Leuven University, Belgium

 

Session 3

Toward a sustainable and a Fair-trade development

 

 

11.30 Stevia growing: opportunity for emerging countries?

• Solution to improve living condition of farmer?
• What are the possibilities?
• Which are the keys to success?

 

Mrs Raina Luff, International Legal Expert, President of AHAZAZA, Belgium

 

 

The Scientific committee will invite Emerging Countries to explain their point of view concerning this filed.

 

 

 

11.30 Short oral presentations: 6 minutes to convince

Companies could present their knowledge in technology, agriculture, seeds, sprouts, plants, machines, innovations or even their extracts…

 

 

12.00 General Discussion of Symposium:

Stevia Growing, Opportunity for industrial and emerging countries?

 

  

12.30 General Discussion of Malta Stevia Congress

Stevia, Challenges and perspectives: Conclusion and recommendations

 

Malta Stevia Congress 2010 Awards

Best World Stevia Ingredient of the year 2010

Stevia Growing Award

  

13.00 Lunch

 

 

End of the Conference

 

All participants invited to a free visit of Malta - Pick up from the hotel Radisson SAS, St Julian Malta

 

 

For more information:

www.stevia-site.com

Tel: +33 1 55 04 77 55