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The Canadian hemp (Part 1)

27/07/2015 | hempmarket
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The area of ​​industrial hemp crops will be increased to 400 000 ha to 2025, which could bring 2.5 to 4 billion. Canadian dollars in profits.

History

After the arrival of European colonizers, the first crop of cannabis wake made by the French botanist Louis Hebert in g .. Port Royal (now Nova Scotia). In 1801, Governor-General of the province of Upper Canada gratuitously distributed hemp seeds to local farmers to increase plantings of this crop.

Hemp in the country has successfully developed 40-ies of XX century. During the 1938-1994 biennium. In Canada cultivation of cannabis it was prohibited because there is a significant pressure from the United States, which at the global level have tried to destroy the super-profitable industry hemp. In 1994, private research institutes restored studies related to the cultivation of industrial hemp. It is thanks to scientists and entrepreneurs across Canada legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp seed Ukrainian selection. Subsequently, the Resolution in respect of industrial hemp by 12 March 1998.

Legal regulation of hemp

The aforementioned Decree regulated the licensing procedure, the cultivation, harvesting, storage, and export and import of various kinds malonarkoticheskoy hemp. The issue of plant growth controlled by the relevant units of the Ministry of Health Canada.

To obtain a license for the cultivation of the farmer should not only fill out a detailed questionnaire and to submit accurate GPS-data on the location of the corresponding cultivated areas, as well as provide information about criminal records of staff who will be engaged in the cultivation of industrial hemp cultivation technology.

According to experts hemp industry in the country, it is hard hemp regulations are a major impediment to the development of hemp industry in the country. Canadian Hemp Trade Association repeatedly appealed to the government to convert the issue hemp from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Canada, as industrial hemp are no different from other crops, such as wheat or canola. However, this initiative is now the government has not yet supported.

Licensed acreage industrial hemp in Canada

Most of all cannabis is grown in provinces such as the Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan. 80% of the area licensed for cultivation of hemp seed, the other for growing hemp fibers.

Significant growth in 1999 licensed premises malonarkoticheskoy hemp crops was due to plans to build in Manitoba processing plant for the production of fibers, which did not materialize. This consequently led to a drop in production in 2000-2001. The decline in production in 2007, experts associated with the overproduction in 2006, as well as higher income from growing other crops.

Since 2009, the crop area is steadily growing industrial hemp. In 2013, the area planted was about 27 000 hectares (67 thousand. Acres) in 2014 - about 36,400 hectares (90,000 acres). According to the "Strategy of development of technical hemp" Canadian Trade Association hemp acreage of industrial hemp is planned to increase up to 1 mln. Acres (400,000 hectares) to 2025, which could bring 2.5 to 4 billion. Canadian dollars in profits.