Hemp areas in Ukraine will increase to 10 thousand hectares

Published 2025년 3월 13일

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The Association for the Development of Flax and Hemp Growing in Ukraine predicts a minimum of 10 thousand hectares of hemp cultivation this year, driven by the launch of the e-Hemp system and industry deregulation. The e-Hemp system will simplify the process of sowing hemp by collecting data from legal growers and allowing them to submit their sowing plans. The deregulation will allow farmers to grow hemp without special licenses or reporting to the National Police and the State Health Service for the first time since Ukraine's independence. Despite challenges like lack of specialized equipment, the large market for hemp products in Ukraine and the EU is expected to attract farmers.

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The Association for the Development of Flax and Hemp Growing in Ukraine expects that this year the area under hemp in Ukraine will increase to at least 10 thousand hectares. This was stated by Vera Ulyanchenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association. According to her, this will be facilitated by the fact that the Ministry of Agrarian Policy managed to launch the e-Hemp system before the start of sowing the crop in the 2025 season. As noted, the system will accumulate data on legal entities-hemp growers from state registers, and farmers will submit data on the areas they plan to sow with this crop. Deregulation of the industry in 2023-2024 will allow, for the first time since independence, to grow industrial hemp without reporting to the National Police and the State Health Service. “Farmers now see that they no longer need to deal with the police and medical services to grow industrial hemp, and they don’t need to obtain any licenses or quotas. An application ...

Source: Superagronom