Zimbabwe has planted its first legal hemp crop after it took steps in 2018 to decriminalise cannabis by adopting legalisation policies to tap into the opportunities that exist in this multi-billion dollar industry.
The Zimbabwe Industrial Hemp Trust (ZIHT) and British firm Eco Equity have planted the crops after winning approval from Government to undertake industrial hemp production.
The two firms were allowed to grow the hemp crop after paying a licence of around US$46 000 each.
ZIHT with its funding partner NSK Holdings and technical partner Symtomax -- a Portuguese firm planted six varieties of industrial cannabis on a 10-hectare piece of land owned by the Harare Central Prison on the eastern outskirts of the capital.
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