A draft Government decision proposed for public debates on particip.gov.md enables to cultivate hemp for extracting fiber, biomass, oil and for manufacturing food and pharmaceuticals products. An authorization will be required for cultivating this plant, IPN reports.

The informative note to the bill says the use of solutions offered by nature can help promote a healthy lifestyle. In the past, hemp provided the people with food, vegetal oil, clothes, antiseptic and ecological materials for building homes.

For commercial reasons, the ban on cultivating hemp plants was imposed worldwide speculatively. China, which is currently the largest maker of hemp products globally, as Canada and the Netherlands are, and which didn’t follow the imposed prohibition and remained on the market, now provides goods of a major importance for the sustainable development of the national economy, said the ministries that signed the given bill.

“Industrial hemp is the plant that can undoubtedly ensure the national energy independence and sustainable rural development in the mainly agrarian countries, such as the Republic of Moldova. The industrial hemp has special industrial and horticultural potential,” says the informative note.

If the processing of hemp is developed for fiber and seeds, Moldova will become a supplier and exporter of derivative products that are in increasing demand on the global market, such as pharmaceutical and food products, textiles, and others.