In Paraguay, there is still no legislation in favor of the cultivation for the recreational consumption of marijuana, but it does have a legal framework for the production and industrial processing of hemp. That is, the treatment of cannabis for non-psychoactive purposes.
Last year, the company Healthy Grains announced the start of a business that will allow Paraguay to export oil, protein and other non-psychoactive cannabis derivatives to the United States, Australia and Canada.
Last week, Martín Burt, creator of the Fundación Paraguaya, told the media Virtual Economy that the industrial hemp cultivation program in the Agricultural Schools will also entail the implementation of a ‘poverty elimination traffic light’ with the collaboration, precisely, of Healthy Grains.
And he emphasized that the alliance with the Chamber of Hemp will allow supporting families to develop business plans to increase their income and get out of poverty.
Healthy Grains will finance the seed that the students will plant, will provide agronomic technical assistance and training; while some adherent companies of the industrial chamber will buy 100% of the production at a pre-established price by contract.
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