JBB Stevia Products for Agricultural Applications

1. Product Description
Product name	Description	1 unit package
"Farm A"	Stevia extract liquid	400 ml bottle 20 liter container
"BB Twin"	Several kinds of herb extract including Stevia	400 ml bottle 20 liter container
"Wonder Pellet"	Stevia pellet	3kg bag

2. Ingredients

"Farm A"

"BB Twin"

"Wonder Pellet"

Stevia extract liquid made of Stevia rough powder, with a large portion of stems and a small portion of leaves mixed, by boiling, condensing, fermenting, and aging

Several kinds of herb extract liquid made of ginseng, Chinese matrimony vine fruit, licorice, bud of clove tree, peach seed, persimmon tree leaves, Stevia, etc.

Stevia fine powder with a large portion of stems and a small portion of leaves mixed

General components
in 100 ml

Energy
Water
Protein
Fat
Carbohydrate
Ash

47 Kcal.
84.2g
3.6g
0.4g
7.3g
4.5g

General components
in 100g

Protein
Fat
Fiber
Water
Ash

7.2g
1.7g
29.5g
6.3g
5.9g

Ingredients in 100 ml

Calcium
Iron
Sodium
Potassium
Phosphor
Retinol
ß-carotene
Vitamin A
Vitamin B1
Vitamin B2
Vitamin C
Niacin
Arsenic
Heavy metal

120 mg
1.3 mg
22 mg
2,200 mg
200 mg
0
23 mg
13 IU
0
0.21 mg
0
2.4 mg
Not detected
< 10 ppm

Ingredients in 100 g

Iron
Calcium
Potassium
ß-carotene
Vitamin A
Vitamin B2
Vitamin B6
Vitamin E
Viotin
Niacin
Chlorophyll

24.3 mg
429 mg
2,030 mg
2.11 mg
1,170 IU
0.36 mg
0.76 mg
1.6 mg
21.8 µg
2.46 mg
91.3 mg

The above ingredient analysis was performed by Foundation of Japan Foods and Sanitation Association, the test organization authorized by Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan.
Since the above Stevia products are made of natural Stevia plants, the ingredients data shown above do not necessarily be applied to every lot of the products shipped.

3. Features of "Farm A" and "Wonder Pellet"
Stevia's activity	The effects and efficacy you can expect
1. Anti-oxidizing activity	Keeps agricultural products fresh longer, and reduces damages and rottenness during transportation and storage. Keeps cut fruits fresh longer and prevents cut surfaces from changing color.
2. Detoxifying activity against histamine	Produces grains such as rice which do not cause allergy to allergy-sensitive people.
3. Dissolving activity against agro-cheminals	Dissolves agricultural chemicals such as malathion accumulated in the soil, activates growth of useful microbes in the soil, and revives the soil full of useful microbes. Dissolves agricultural chemicals sprayed over leaves and fruits. Produces safe products almost free of agrochemical residues.
4. Activity to keep insects and worms away	Farm A, when sprayed over leaves and fruits in dilution, keeps insects and worms away from the plants. Reduces use of insecticides.
5. Activity to increase sugar content	Increases sugar content of fruits (peach, orange, pear, grape, apple, pine apple, mango, etc.) and fruit vegetables (melon, water melon, strawberry, etc.) by 1~2%. In other words, it recovers the original level of sugar content that the plants have when cultivated only by organic manure. Produces fruits which are tastier and sweeter than those cultivated on the land with chemical fertilizers and agrochemicals accumulated in the soil.
6. Activity to increase nutrients	Increases or recovers nutrients such as vitamins and minerals which have been reduced by cultivation with chemical fertilizers and agrochemicals. Makes fruits and vegetables tastier and better in flavor.
7. Activity to help a plant take more nutrition from its roots	Activates plant roots and help a plant take more nutrition from its roots.
8. Activity to increase growth and harvest	Activates a healthy growth of plants and plant roots. Prevents plants against diseases and helps cure diseases. Increases harvest quantity per hectare, especially for vine vegetable fruits. Increases the period of harvest of vine fruit vegetables such as tomato, strawberry, eggplant, green pepper, cucumber, and field pea.
9. Activity to prevent fruits from falling	Prevents fruits from falling down when exposed to strong wind. Substantially prevents damage to be caused by a typhoon.
10. Activity to make fruit trees younger	Activates old fruit trees which have come to bear less fruits or smaller fruits than young trees. Prevents fruit trees from getting older ad less active.
11. Activity to make fruits uniformly colored	Gives ripe color uniformly to fruits such as oranges which are under leaves.
12. Activity to make the size of fruits bigger and more uniform	Makes tree fruit and vegetable fruit bigger and more uniform in size. Increases fruit harvest.
13. Activity to greatly accelerate manufacture of organic manure	Stevia powder, when mixed with fresh dung from cow, pig, and chicken, greatly accelerates fermentation of dung, and produces high-quality organic manure in 3 months. Stevia powder removes bad smell very quickly and controls birth of flies. Helps produce natural organic manure with much ease to be replaced by chemical fertilizers.

4. Features of "BB Twin"
BB Twin's activity	The effects and efficacy you can expect
Activity to accelerate a healthy growth of plant roots while controlling diseases and harmful insects and worms in the soil.	When plant seedling roots are dipped in diluted BB Twin solution just before planting, or diluted BB Twin solution is applied on the ground around the planted roots or in the pot of seedlings before planting, it helps plant roots grow faster without being much affected by diseases and harmful insects, worms, and microbes in the soil.
Activity to prevent and help cure various diseases	Prevents such diseases as Nematoda, wilt, damping-off, downy mildew, anthracnose, mildew, sclerotium disease, mosaic disease, etc. Helps cure the above diseases when plants get affected.

5. Method of Use Each method of application of Farm A, Wonder Pellet, and BB Twin varies with kinds of plants and conditions of soil, so please refer to the manual of each plant for more details. Here is the general description on how to apply these JBB agricultural materials to plants.
1. Vegetables	At fertilization before planting: Mix 5~10 kg of Wonder Pellet per 10 a (1,000 m2) with a fertilizer and apply it to the field of 10 a. At planting: When planting potted seedlings, spray amply 400 liters of 1,000 times BB Twin dilution over the seedling pots for the field of 10 a. After planting without pots, spray or irrigate uniformly 400 liters of 1,000 times BB Twin dilution over the planted field of 10 a. After planting: In about 1 week after planting, spray or irrigate uniformly 800 liters of 1,000 times Farm A dilution over the planted field of 10 a. Before harvest: During the period from one month before the harvest to 10 days before the harvest, spray 400 liters of 1,000 times Farm A dilution over the leaves 3 times at the same intervals.
2. Rice	At preparation of rice field: Before getting the soil turned over, spray uniformly 6 kg of Wonder powder per 10 a. At preparation of rice paddy field just before planting: Spray uniformly 800 ml of Farm A undiluted solution per the paddy field of 10 a. Before harvest: One month before harvest when the inside of rice ears are getting harder, dilute 800 ml of Farm A per the rice field of 10 a 200~300 times, and spray it uniformly over leaves in the rice field of 10 a.
3. Fruit	At fertilization: Mix 5~10 kg of Wonder Pellet per 10 a (1,000 m2) with a fertilizer and apply it to the field of 10 a. After fertilization, spray or irrigate uniformly 10 liters of 500 times Farm A dilution on the ground around one fruit tree. Just before flowering: Spray or irrigate uniformly 10 liters of 500 times Farm A dilution on the ground around one fruit tree. For fruit trees which are likely to be affected by anthracnose, spray or irrigate uniformly 300 liters of 1,000 times BB Twin dilution per 10 a field over the ground around fruit trees. Before harvest: During the period from one month before the harvest to 10 days before the harvest, spray 300~400 liters of 700 times Farm A dilution over the leaves 3 times at the same intervals.

Precautions for Application

In spite of Stevia application in the same quantity as the manual shows, plants may grow at a different speed depending on weather, soil power, soil quality, and so on. In some cases, they may grow faster than expected, so adjustment of application quantity will be needed.
The effects of Stevia agricultural materials on plants varies with the kinds of plants.
As Stevia keeps fruits and vegetable fruits fresh longer by its strong anti-oxidizing activity, you may not get fruits well-ripened if you harvest them too early. You have to confirm the ripeness before harvest of fruits. (Farmers who have never used Stevia materials before tend to harvest fruits when they are not well-ripened because they expect the fruits to be ripened after harvest.)
Be careful not to apply Farm A dilution to fruit field or over the ground around the fruit trees when their roots start to grow and expand.
There have been some reports from farmers that application of 300~400 times Farm A dilution over the leaves when harmful insects gets together around plants held them off. You can make a test with Farm A dilution application.
Do not apply Farm A or BB Twin mixed with a germicide. You may get a less effect of the Farm A or BB Twin. Spray Farm A or BB Twin alone some days after the germicide is sprayed.
You can apply Farm A or BB Twin mixed with a insecticide. But be sure to use up the solution, and do not store the solution residue, or you will get a less effect of the insecticide in the residue as time goes by.
If you apply Stevia materials of thicker dilution than specified in the instruction manual, it will not damage nor kill the applied plants. But there may be some cases where you get products of different quality than what you expect. Please follow the instructions of the manual for each kind of vegetables and fruits.
In the year of unseasonable weather (such as too little sunshine, or too cold), the harvest of Stevia-cultivated products will not be much affected by the unseasonable weather.
You can get much better results of activation and increase of microbes in the soil when you mainly use organic manure together with Stevia materials and when you continue to use Stevia materials every year.