Hemp industry in India
In accordance with the relevant regulations of the Indian mass cultivation of cannabis is allowed not only for industry but also for gardening.
Paris UN summit on climate protection in India gave a new impetus to discus about the need to change the state policy towards konoplevodstvu country. Actively develop global industry cultivation, processing and sale of industrial hemp is necessary are risen as the foundation of modern industry, which produces ecological material claimed on the international market.
After the Paris Summit of Indian hemp with new energy raises the question of the need for industrial hemp in the course of construction activities, increased use of cannabis as one of the most effective fitoremediantov. In their opinion one of the aspects of early development konoplevodstva in China and Canada, it is an ecological, when the leader of the world market konoplevodstva trying to improve the ecological situation in the country and the leading countries of the North American market develops konoplevodstvo it with an eye to maintaining environmentally safe situation. Including unsettled due to a number of issues related to the cultivation, the use of plants as well as environmental bonuses that brings his cultivation, professional associations konoplevodstva India raises questions about the need for changes to the current legislation of the country.
Description of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
Turnover seeds and hemp fiber malonarkoticheskoy in India is not controlled. The law enforcement agencies to monitor the situation in the cultivation and consumption of leaves and inflorescences of psychoactive hemp, which is used for recreational purposes. On the one hand, in accordance with the law of India's Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1985, the relevant regulations of the country allowed the mass cultivation of cannabis is not only for industry but also for gardening. However, Article 10 of the Act gives the government official to decide the extent to which the license must operate, making it possible to cultivate cannabis in the territory of the individual states in the country. That is the trick regularly use legislation to prohibit in certain regions malonarkoticheskuyu cultivate cannabis and other "ignore" industrial plantations of marijuana.
Indian Association of industrial hemp was established in 2011 and is a community of producers, processors, academia and trade, specializing in working with the production of hemp malonarkoticheskoy. As of 2015, the Association consists of dozens of companies, representing the interests of the Indian konoplevodstva at all levels of the Indian government and management. One of the tasks to be solved by professional associations growers, is the introduction into the everyday life of Indian society of environmental technologies based on the use of hemp raw materials or the remarkable properties of plants like fitoremedianta.
According to the managing director of the company "Hemp Cann Solutions" Saurabh Agarwal "In the light of the Paris summit dedicated to one of the major challenges of climate change, it is the cultivation of cannabis is becoming a key issue for all of humanity. Technical hemp does not require intensive irrigation and practically no need for herbicides and pesticides. Among other things, the crop of hemp compared to other crops very rapidly matures, giving a raw material that can be applied in numerous areas of management - from high-quality vegetarian protein and biocomposite materials Construction material, textiles and knitwear, zoobusiness, pharmacology as well as medicine. It is now zealous owners can not ignore the qualities of this great culture. " Mr. Agarwal company currently specializes in the sale of food products and textiles made from hemp produced in Canada. Throughout 2015 the company is negotiating with the Government of Himachal Pradesh that the first time in India to create agricultural enterprise, specializing in the cultivation of industrial hemp, in accordance with all standards imposed on organic farming.
One of the founders of "The Bombay Hemp Company" Yash Kotak argues that hemp fabric is better than cotton - for its cultivation must be 400 times less water, and the resulting string is 8 times stronger than tear than a similar number of any other yarn, produced from vegetable raw materials. Over the past six years, employees "The Bombay Hemp Company" carried out extensive research to identify potential market opportunities hemp seed. According to Mr. Kotak once commercial production of industrial hemp seeds will hit Indian stores, it is not only immediately find its consumers, but also for decades will be the driver of the grocery market in the Asia - Pacific region. In 2015, the company jointly with the Fund "Panchachuli Weavers" has launched a plant in Uttarakhand in the primary processing of hemp fibers.