Thailand: 2 departments piloted hemp seed to enter the industry

Published 2021년 4월 5일

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The Cooperative Promotion Department and the Department of Agriculture in Thailand are partnering to introduce hemp seeds into the food, beverage, cosmetics, hemp seed oil, and animal feed industries. This comes as the government and Ministry of Health have allowed hemp cultivation due to increasing demand. The departments are planning to pilot hemp production in suitable cooperatives and have received interest from large industries. The cost of hemp seeds is around 5,000 baht per kilogram, while the production cost and potential profit per rai have been outlined. The ministry is also promoting marijuana as a new economic crop, educating about its cultivation, and conducting research on suitable strains for Thailand.

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Cooperative Promotion Department joins hands with Department of Agriculture to pilot production Hemp seeds Enter the food industry, beverages, cosmetics, hemp seed oil. And animal feed While Mananya visited the first cannabis cultivation area, Krabi Province, Mr. Wisit Srisuwan, Director-General of the Cooperative Promotion Department Disclosed after chairing the meeting to discuss ways to promote the production of hemp crops by farmers institute that such guidelines are cooperation between Department of Agricultural Extension With the Department of Agriculture Due to the current demand for hemp To enter the industrial system of food, beverages, cosmetics, hemp seed oil And animal feed Therefore expected to be a new economic crop But since Thailand has not yet promoted cultivation before Due to legal conditions But now the government and the Ministry of Health have unlocked. As a result, many industries began to plan to use hemp plant parts to be used in industrial systems, which ...

Source: Prachachat