AGRICULTURE NEWS - The Western Cape Minister of Agriculture, Dr Ivan Meyer, said during the launch of the plan that the Western Cape’s climatic conditions, except for the Southern Cape, were not entirely suited for medicinal cannabis or hemp production.
For this reason, the province would be focussing on a value chain approach to cash in on the estimated R28 billion and 10 000 to 25 000 jobs the cannabis industry was predicted to create across the value chain.
“The aim of the CanPlan is to mainstream informal producers and agri-processors, promote hemp as a rotational crop as part of improved environmental and regenerative practices and to evaluate measures to protect and promote unique Western Cape hemp and cannabis characteristics.”
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