A Lesotho-based cannabis cultivator has been approved as the first manufacturer in Africa to export the medicinal cannabis flower as an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to the European Union.
MG Health has been certified as meeting the EU's good manufacturing practice (GMP) standards.
Situated outside of Lesotho’s capital Maseru, in the mountainous region near Mohale Dam at 2,000 metres above sea level, MG Health operates a cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility.
The 5,000 sqm greenhouse, fitted with internal climate, temperature, humidity and lighting controls, houses plants which are dried and trimmed to produce 250kg of medical-grade cannabis flower every month. MG Health’s master plan is to increase this output to 100 tons of cannabis flower per year using a cultivation area of 160,000 sqm.
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