Our sales related to the manufacture and sale of Stevioside increased from $2,864,014 for the six months ended October 31, 2005 to $4,272,973 for the six months ended October 31, 2006, an increase of $1,408,959, or approximately 49%. The increase in the sales of our natural sweetener, Stevioside, reflects the completion in fiscal 2006 of our manufacturing equipment upgrade. The new facility improves the quality of our Stevioside and could enable us to capture a larger market share. We manufactured 107 tons of Stevioside and resold 123 tons during fiscal year 2006. We anticipate manufacturing 300 tons of Stevioside during fiscal year 2007. For the six months ended October 31, 2006, we manufactured 97 tons and resold 73 tons and for the six months ended October 31, 2005, we manufactured 32 tons of Stevioside and resold 73 tons. We believe that the market for Stevioside remains strong as we continue to witness growing demand for the product from consumers based in Japan resulting in increased exports to Japan. In order to ensure we have a sufficient supply of raw materials for production.
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