Hemp, new opportunities for French farmers?

Published 2021년 8월 27일

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Jouany Chatoux, a farmer in Pigerolles, Creuse, has been cultivating hemp for three years, as part of France's 1,300 hemp producers, with a focus on increasing cannabidiol (CBD) concentration in the flowers. The article discusses the history of hemp cultivation in France, the requirement of THC traceability, and the potential benefits of CBD. It also highlights the legal implications of CBD production, including the European Court of Justice's decision and the proposed recast of France's decree on hemp cultivation and marketing. The decree, which is being reviewed to allow hemp extracts but prohibit the sale of raw flowers, has sparked controversy among farmers, with concerns over potential industrial control of the CBD market and the lack of support from InterChanvre.

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An organic polyculture-livestock-methanization farmer in Pigerolles (Creuse), Jouany Chatoux has been cultivating hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) on his farm for three years. He is one of the 1,300 hemp producers in France, a leading European country in this production, with nearly 1,000 ha cultivated. Hemp cultivation has been steadily increasing for 30 years, but it is however far from the 176,000 ha it occupied in the middle of the 19th century. In France, varieties without THC Like all his French and European colleagues, Jouany Chatoux can only cultivate varieties that produce very little tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, a substance sought by some consumers for its psychotropic effect. Like all his colleagues, he is also required to have full traceability of his culture and has a 30% chance of being checked on his plants in August, in order to prove that their THC content does not exceed not the French regulatory 0.2%. On the other hand, the technical route of Jouany Chatoux, with only ...

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