In the US, the first certified seeds of technical hemp
Seed selection and Ukrainian companies are trying to enter the hemp seed market in the world's largest economy. Several Ukrainian bezgashishnoy varieties of cannabis are appropriate certification in certain administrative-territorial units of the United States.
In Colorado officials last week were officially presented prepared for cultivation in the state of technical hemp seeds. They have been certified by Ministry of Agriculture staff. The head of the above-mentioned state structures Colorado Duane Sinning in the course of communication with journalists, said that "the seeds are a guarantee of rapid and stable development konoplevodcheskoy industry in the country. At the moment, the cultivation of industrial technical hemp crops in the US is much more risky than working with medical or recreational cannabis . Until now, the market there are not seeds, guaranteeing a minimum number of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in cannabis. in reality, this means that the crop grown, containing THC concentration greater than 0.3% destroyed in spite of all the losses that could incur grow it American farmer. "
In Colorado registered malonarkoticheskoy 6 varieties of hemp, which is already on the seed company in 2017 will be made available to agricultural producers 29 states have their own cultivation program of technical cannabisa within their administrative-territorial units.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
Congress authorized the US administrative-territorial units engaged in the technical development of konoplevodstva back in 2014. In spite of this cannabis growers in the states where a rapidly growing industry the most profitable entities, are faced with a number of insurmountable difficulties. For example, the need for certification malonarkoticheskoy hemp federal structures, lack of seed with a low THC content, cost astronomical amounts of seed, the constant threat of investigation by the Drug Control, etc. That is why in 2016 malonarkoticheskoy hemp in the United States planted only about 290 hectares.
In the US, the cultivation of hemp malonarkoticheskoy engaged only in those states in which the level of regulatory legal acts secured the possibility of industrial hemp cultivation. Colorado is one of the states, which allowed the cultivation of industrial hemp crops bezgashishnoy. On the territory of the state is already registered about 400 farmers who are planning or technical cannabis growers.
Seed selection and Ukrainian companies are trying to enter the hemp seed market in the world's largest economy. Several Ukrainian bezgashishnoy varieties of cannabis are appropriate certification in certain administrative-territorial units of the United States. It is hoped that the achievements of Ukrainian breeders will make a worthy competition to the American, Asian, Australian, European varieties and will be included in the relevant registers of the United States of plant varieties before planting the company in 2017.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua