Hemp – A Nutritious Crop That Stores Carbon
Nutritious, carbon-sequestering, and fast-growing – hemp is a plant with multiple benefits and it has...
Read moreNutritious, carbon-sequestering, and fast-growing – hemp is a crop with many advantages and the potential to be part of the solution for a more sustainable agricultural system. At Torsåker Farm, a small-scale cultivation and processing trial of EU-certified industrial hemp has been carried out. In parallel, both hemp seed and fiber have been evaluated to identify suitable applications. The ambition has been to answer the question: Can industrial hemp become a future crop within the agricultural industry, and can infrastructure be developed in Sweden to refine and process hemp fiber and hemp seed for both food and material applications?
Nutritious, carbon-sequestering, and fast-growing – hemp is a plant with multiple benefits and it has...
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