Homie Recipes, Inc. announced that the company has entered into a Joint Venture Agreement with the West African Stevia Company and KOP Farms. Terms of the Joint Venture Agreement call for the parties to immediately plant and cultivate 50 hectares (approx. 120 acres) of stevia, increasing in stages up to 2,500 hectares (approx. 6,200 acres) planted. In addition to planting and cultivating stevia on its own lands, the partners intend to develop an "outgrowers" program across Ghana to expand production of stevia with 3rd party farmers on a contract basis. The 3rd party grown stevia would then be processed, marketed, and sold by the partnership. Stevia, derived from the Stevia rebaudiana plant, is a low-carbohydrate food and beverage sweetener and sugar substitute (up to 300 times sweeter than sugar). Stevia is the only commercially viable, naturally derived, no calorie sweetener for global food and beverage applications. According to WHO estimates, stevia has the potential to replace 20-30% of all dietary sweeteners (estimated at $10 billion in 2017).