Cannabis Industry Plans for South Africa Have Stalled - How to Get Them Moving Again TC_Africa: SouthAfrica
- also in his state of the nation address - that the government would mobilise investment in the hemp and cannabis sectors.
Currently farmers who have licences, grow their hemp and cannabis indoors under controlled conditions. The commercialisation will allow them to farm outdoors on a larger scale. The second is that, from mid-2022, small scale farmers farming cannabis promised to be issued with licences to farm legally. However, some farmers in the rural areas of the Eastern Cape are still waiting.Cannabis Organisation University of Pretoria
These include reviewing and revising the existing master plan, getting defunct working groups up and running again, ensuring the plan is in place before investments begin and setting up a monitoring and evaluation capability.The president mentioned that, in accelerating commercialisation of the sector, urgent work is being finalised by government to create an enabling regulatory framework for hemp and cannabis plants.
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