Where in Kazakhstan legally make money from hemp
"Today we have imported from the roll paper produce 2.5 million reams of office paper per year - only 10 percent of Kazakhstan's market. The following year, we prepare a raw material base, our hemp sown 10 thousand hectares. In order to produce 25 million reams of office paper per year, we need about 50 thousand tons of raw materials. In 2018 here in the industrial zone of Shymkent, a large pulp and paper mill will be built. Kazakhstan's full paper production cycle "Thus will be created.
In Kazakhstan, there were the first in the history of legal hemp planting. Grow it for quite good purposes. From valuable product they want to release the paper. The first domestic office paper is made from the "Gljana" cannabis varieties developed by Ukrainian scientists.
Today, under the experimental crops occupied 45 hectares in four regions of Kazakhstan - Almaty, Karaganda, Akmola and South Kazakhstan. The last and is the lion's share of landings - 38 hectares. Within two years, the hemp for paper would be heads on 10 thousand hectares, say the authors of this unusual project.
A hemp field is not achieved such impressive proportions correspondent managed to visit one of them, located in the industrial zone "South" on the outskirts of Shymkent.
"Hemp as a raw material for paper and textiles used for a long time. So nothing surprising in the fact that we are seeking to establish a comprehensive domestic paper production cycle, pay attention to it.
Wood, cane and flax, which we also considered as raw material, were high in cost. A cannabis less labor intensive, and, most importantly, non-waste. Its stem is divided into two parts: the fiber - the outer part of the plant, and the kostra - inside. During the processing of them receive two different types of pulp.
The fibrous part of the hemp gives a very valuable product, constituting for example, the basis for the production of banknotes. Content kostra going on cardboard, cellulose and other junk. The mixing of these two components allows a variety of paper, "- says Kuandik Ashirbayev, director of the pulp and paper mill located in the industrial zone of Shymkent.
A fascinating story about cannabis from the mouth Kuandyk Ashirbaeva gave a lot of interesting information about ancient plants, which most people in the world known only as a drug.
It is fair to say that the Ukrainian scientists have done much to change the attitude towards it. Derived they sort of "Gljana", according Kuandyk Ashirbaeva does not contain tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) - the main constituent drugs. And because it is also useless to smoke as normal grass - no stupefying effect.
During the conversation got to the field, exudes a sweet fragrance of hemp. Effect, I thought, maybe not, but pleasant smell, rasteksheysya by district, a little dizzy. Green yellow blossoms under the scorching southern sun.
As it turned out in the course of the experiment, the hot dry climate is not well suited for moisture-loving culture. Cannabis grown in Almaty region, managed to reach the two-meter mark, while South Kazakhstan have not grown up to one and a half meters. Because in the future plan to sow hemp in the fields of Almaty and Pavlodar oblasts. But it will be processed in Shymkent.
"Our factory was originally conceived as a full paper production cycle. Therefore, immediately began to study the way in which it is produced in other countries. The main raw material - wood, but in France, China and Austria began to produce paper from hemp "- says Kuandik Ashirbayev.
In Kazakhstan to grow this culture is prohibited by law. And many entrepreneurs had obbit thresholds to prove to officials, the police and most importantly, that the hemp variety that they were going to grow, it is harmless.
"For us it was real in the course of cooperation with scientists from Ukraine, which provided scientific support of the project. To support us in the ministries of industry and trade, agriculture, the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs.
But to obtain the permission of the Ministry of Interior had to tinker. We're the first and only in Kazakhstan, who legally grow hemp. A week ago we once again visited by representatives of the Ministry of Interior, samples were taken for examination. So our crops completely controlled, "- says the Ashirbayev.
In early August, grown hemp is beveled. Part of the harvest will send their foreign colleagues for the production of paper. After this experiment can be considered successfully completed. And it will start full implementation.
"Today we have imported from the roll paper produce 2.5 million reams of office paper per year - only 10 percent of Kazakhstan's market. The following year, we prepare a raw material base, our hemp sown 10 thousand hectares. In order to produce 25 million reams of office paper per year, we need about 50 thousand tons of raw materials.
In 2018 here in the industrial zone of Shymkent, a large pulp and paper mill will be built. So full of Kazakh paper production cycle "will be established, - says Kuandik Ashirbayev.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua