Kentucky’s first hemp crop being experimented on, as allowed by new federal law, is going on throughout the state. Greg Hall, The Courier-Journal Kentucky is speeding up hemp production in the third year of testing its possibility of being a cash crop. The state Department of Agriculture stated on Friday that it has allowed the planting of over 4,500 acres of hemp for 2016 which is 900 acres more than what was allowed in 2015. Moreover, the testing started with just 33 acres in 2014, but the momentum built up after a change in leadership at the Agriculture Department.
The resurrection of legal hemp development was credited to by then-state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer. Comer kept running for representative a year ago, losing in the Republican essential to Matt Bevin. In any case, his successor as Agriculture Commissioner, Ryan Quarles, has accepted the part of supporting for hemp.
“Hemp is a bridge from Kentucky’s past to our future,” Quarles, a Republican, stated. “The Kentucky Department of Agriculture and our partners are committed to building upon the solid foundation of research for a Kentucky hemp industry that will create jobs and new marketing opportunities.”
Kentucky has been at the cutting edge in endeavors to return hemp to standard status. The minor testing crop yielded in 2014 was the first lawful hemp crop in years in Kentucky. Growing hemp without a government grant was banned in 1970 because of its grouping as a controlled substance identified with cannabis.
Hemp and weed are the same species, Cannabis sativa, yet hemp has a minuscule measure of THC, the psychoactive ingredient that gives weed users a high. Hemp got a restricted respite with the government ranch charge, which permits state agriculture departments to assign hemp projects for innovative work in states, for example, Kentucky that permits hemp developing.
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