Areas under hemp and peas will grow due to the emergence of processing plants — minister

Published Dec 27, 2025

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The deregulation law in the hemp industry has created the conditions for building processing capacities. The emergence of the first industrial hemp processing plant has created a demand for its cultivation. The areas are growing in line with the demand. Currently, factories for the production of pea bio-glue for the furniture industry are being built in Ukraine. These factories will consume an amount of peas approximately twice as large as the current areas planted with this crop. Therefore, the emergence of processing similar to hemp will cause an increase in the sown areas.

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The availability of processing capacities significantly influences the structure of crops and the list of crops that Ukrainian agrarians grow. In particular, at present, some niche crops are gaining popularity precisely due to this factor. In an interview for Latifundist.com, Oleksiy Sobolev, Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine, talked about which processing clusters, apart from the main crops, can be promising in Ukraine. According to him, at the time, the increase in sunflower processing capacities stimulated the expansion of sunflower areas. However, sunflower was still a mass crop at that time, so the processing scaled up quickly. On the other hand, for crops such as flax and hemp, which indeed have good potential for the development of their processing, the starting conditions are different. Large survey Anonymous survey: Yield of main crops in the 2025 season After all, for fiber crops, it is necessary to initially build up the raw material base, the ...

Source: Superagronom