Why the experience of Australian cannabis growers is interesting to the national market

Even before the launch of production facilities, business relations were established with almost all companies in the country that could use hemp fiber as a raw material for the final products manufactured by enterprises.

The hemp trust primary processing plant has begun processing locally grown plants into materials for the construction, textile and other industries in the Margaret River area. The first facility of its kind in Western Australia and possibly the first in Australia to establish industrial hemp processing facilities in Margaret River received $ 399,000 support from the State Agribusiness Investment Fund and the Western Australian Government, which provides grants for various projects. associated with modern cannabis farming.

“The Margaret River Hemp Plant is up and running, opening up a new industry that creates jobs for the Southwest,” said Alanna McTiernan, Minister of Agriculture and Food of Western Australia. “Local processing is critical to the development of the hemp industry in the Southwest — it makes hemp a more profitable plant for farmers to grow.”

The production facilities of the enterprise will produce large and small fractions of hemp fire, as well as unprocessed fiber. The campfire is planned for the production of boned concrete, bedding for animals, and also as mulch. Processor owners Gary Rogers and David Campbell have already built a test house from a hemp campfire that was completely recycled in the area where it was grown. 

The plant's hemp fiber is planned to be used to produce a wide range of consumer goods, including insulation materials as well as pillow and mattress padding. To this end, even before the launch of production facilities, business relations were established with almost all companies in the country that could use hemp fiber as a raw material for the final products manufactured by enterprises.

Commentary of the specialists of the Association "Ukrainian technical hemp"

Margaret River is a city in the southwestern state of Western Australia with a population of about 6,400, located about 270 km south of Perth (the state capital). The area around the city is known as the "Margaret Wine Region". Every year, thanks to wine production and tourism, this area is visited by about 500,000 tourists. It is noteworthy that using the tourism potential of the region known as the wine capital of Australia, state officials are creating a hemp industry in the area. In particular, hemp production in Western Australia is regulated by the State Industrial Hemp Act 2004. Licensed farmers can grow crops, but leaves and buds cannot contain more than 1.0% tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). This gives Western Australian farmers some advantage over agricultural producers in other Australian jurisdictions where the THC threshold is much lower.

Another highlight of the establishment of production facilities in Western Australia is the fact that government agencies and various types of funds provide financial resources to help “start” production facilities that increase the profitability of cultivating the most profitable crop.

During the round tables held within the framework of the Hemp University , dedicated to the "launch" of the primary processing of hemp trusts in our country in recent years, it was emphasized that there is a need in the country for the use of the hemp fire (at the end of this year at On the territory of Western Ukraine, production facilities will be launched, on an industrial scale, producing hemp bricks, as well as blocks). At the same time in our country there is a wildest situation with the sale of hemp fiber . The existing facilities for the primary processing of hemp trusts cover the needs of all downstream processing enterprises in hemp fiber for three weeks or a month . Those. At the moment, the enterprises of primary processing of hemp trusts are facing the most acute task of selling hemp fiber, primarily to foreign customers, or the formation of a domestic market for the sale of these products.