Whether cannabis can process in the Penza region
Any investment project in the field of industrial konoplevodstva on the territory of the Russian Federation currently has an unsolvable problem, due to lack of quality seed.
March 17 the governor of the Penza region considered an investment project of the Moscow investors of growing industrial hemp and construction at its processing plant in the region. According to the head region, the project is interesting.
Technical hemp is a crop, cultivated for fiber and seed. Used for the production of fabrics and other textile products, cables for the Navy. As the raw materials - the production of a number of building materials, in particular, as a cheap base for high-quality paints and varnishes. Food hemp oil content of nutrients, dietary properties superior to olive oil, and the price affordable.
In 2016, according to the design data Moscow businessmen are ready to sow the plant 500-700 hectares. And by 2017 to obtain the figure 3 - thousands of hectares. In the long term it plans to expand planting areas and construction of a plant for the processing of industrial hemp.
The project is for 3 years and requires an initial investment of 150 million rubles. In its implementation, 30 additional jobs will be for people in the region.
To ensure the work of the project, the governor ordered to form a plot of the number of reserve land, which was planned to enter into the crop rotation and to issue a lease.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
Plans to create a cluster of hemp in the Penza region of the Russian Federation being discussed over the last few years. At the same time, any investment project in the field of industrial konoplevodstva on the territory of the Russian Federation currently has an unsolvable problem, due to lack of quality seed. Government officials at various levels assure that in the corresponding register of plant varieties entered more than 20 varieties of hemp malonarkoticheskih Russian selection, but cannabis growers RF annually come exclusively at the Ukrainian technical hemp seeds in anticipation of planting. Without solving the issue of acquisition of sufficient seed from which to grow the raw materials needed for the capacity utilization of the projected enterprise, investment project risks becoming another phantom regional level, allowing "flow" of the local budget financial resources in well-defined pockets of government officials and their affiliated commercial structures.