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Industrial Cannabis / Hemp / Cannabis Sativa L. has long been an agricultural staple and a traditional crop in parts of the world where both legal and environmental factors have been, or are, favourable.
Cannabis is a renewable resource in a finite world. Its use in the construction, food, nutrition, fibre, fuel, plastics, pharmaceutical, health, motor vehicle and skin care sectors is well known. In South Africa, we have a long way to go in establishing an Industrial Cannabis sector but the passage towards legal regulation has seen plenty of interest in this viable, sustainable agricultural crop.
Currently “set” at 2% and seriously compromising the potential of our local “landrace” cultivars to be utilised for industrial purposes. Not based on science.
Where are the seeds for this agricultural crop coming from? Protection of our endemic cultivars and adherence to the Nagoya Protocol (SA is a signatory) is vital.
Hemp cultivation does not involve culling the male plants and pollen can drift over a large area, threatening production of Adult and Health Use crops. Exclusion zones are needed.
From seeds with high nutritional value to flowers high in CBD, Cannabis cultivated as an industrial crop underlines the fact that the whole plant can be used, adding to the value and sustainability of this type of agriculture.
However, there is a proliferation of “Hemp derived” products being imported into South Africa and Fields of Green for ALL warns the South African public against these synthetic and potentially dangerous derivatives – “Delta 8” / “HHC” etc.
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