Hemp Excellence Project

大麻卓越项目是农民，研究和工业之间的合作，以加强大麻种植的知识基础，帮助为农民种植这种可持续作物开辟新的机会。工业大麻，具有低水平的精神活性化合物THC的大麻，在过去十年中，全球对大麻的兴趣激增。它有成千上万的用途，适用于工厂的所有部分。这些领域包括食品、建筑、纺织品和生物塑料。到2027年，全球大麻市场预计将达到152.6亿美元，大麻作为一种经济和环境可持续的作物具有巨大的潜力。这使得它非常有吸引力，因为农民希望在从BPS过渡中实现多样化并减少碳足迹。可以收获三个关键部分：用于营养食品或工业用途的种子，用于建筑材料的茎皮层或shiv，以及用于织物绝缘和许多其他生物基材料的纤维。纤维为英国新兴的生物经济提供了许多机会，以取代由不可再生资源制造的产品。大麻在英国种植了数百年，后来由于药物分类而被遗弃。由于种植的这种差距，种植者的知识和加工基础设施已经枯竭，并且很少有关于英国种植的公开研究。农民由于缺乏以下方面的知识和研究而受到阻碍：* 农艺学和品种选择，以获得最佳英国产量 * 收获方法和设备 * 最佳预处理，以获得质量和回报该项目由肯特郡的一家农业企业领导，该企业将进行农场试验，以确定在英国农业环境中种植大麻的最佳方法，以获得质量和产量。他们将与一个作物科学组织合作，进行研究设计和结果分析。一个领先的鞋类品牌将提供行业洞察力，从农场到最终用户提供联合思维。大麻卓越项目将产生关于大麻建立，种植，收获和预处理的数据，这些数据将被汇编成报告。这将为农场大麻种植研究开创先例，并为现有和有抱负的种植者提供宝贵的知识。这将使英国农民更有信心将这种有利可图的可持续作物添加到他们的轮作中。开发的专有技术将有助于英国大麻行业的未来发展，例如新的加工设施和市场准入。

The Hemp Excellence Project is a collaboration between farmers, research and industry to enhance the knowledge base for hemp cultivation to help open up new opportunities for farmers to grow this sustainable crop.Industrial hemp, cannabis with a low level of the psychoactive compound THC, has seen a global upsurge in interest in the last decade. It has thousands of uses, with applications for all parts of the plant. These include food, construction, textiles and bioplastics. The global hemp market is projected to reach $15.26 billion by 2027\.Hemp has huge potential as a financially and environmentally sustainable crop. This makes it highly appealing as farmers look to diversify in the transition from BPS and reduce their carbon footprint.There are three key parts that can be harvested: the seeds for nutritious foods or industrial use, the stem cortex or shiv for building materials, and fibre, for use in fabrics insulation and many other biobased materials. Fibre offers many opportunities for the UK's emerging bio-economy, to replace products manufactured from non-renewable resources.Hemp had been grown in the UK for hundreds of years prior to being abandoned due to drug classification. As a result of this gap in cultivation, grower knowledge and processing infrastructure have become depleted and there has been very little published research on growing in the UK.Farmers are held back by a lack of knowledge and research on:* Agronomy and variety choice for optimal UK-yield* Harvesting methods and equipment* Optimum pre-processing for quality and return to growersThe project is being led by a Kentish farming business who will conduct on-farm trials to identify the best ways to grow hemp in a UK agricultural context for quality and yield. They will collaborate with a crop science organisation for research design and analysis of results. A leading footwear brand will provide industry insight to deliver joined up thinking from farm to end user.The Hemp Excellence Project will produce data on hemp establishment, cultivation, harvest and pre-processing which will be compiled into a report. This will set a precedent for on-farm hemp growing research and provide valuable knowledge for existing and aspiring growers. This would give UK farmers more confidence to add this profitable, sustainable crop to their rotation.The know-how developed will contribute to future development of the UK hemp industry such as new processing facilities and market access.