New Zealanders can grow hemp on a small, non-commercial scale under newly liberalized national rules, and the country’s hemp association has launched a seed p ...

Polish hemp fields have nearly doubled this year, reaching roughly 2,171 hectares by the end of July as the number of ...

Britain is moving toward its first authorizations of CBD foods after a six-year regulatory process, but the approvals could have a limited life as the country p ...

Qinggang County in China’s Heilongjiang Province expects to harvest hemp from 40,000 acres (~16,200 hectares) in 2021 as the government increases its support for development of high-tech solutions in ...

Some estimates may be overly optimistic but government and stakeholders in Ukraine agree that hemp fields are likely to grow this year despite the continuing Russian assault in the east. While the ...

Europe’s CBD industry is emerging from the novel foods era smaller, weaker and stripped of many of the companies that fueled the sector’s early boom. What began as a regulatory exercise has turned ...

South Korea is investing 29.6 billion won (about $21 million) to move its pioneering industrial hemp program into a new commercialization phase, signaling that medical applications remain the ...

Raw material from hemp stalks and roots could strengthen recycled paper, extending the life of reused paper fibers and improving mechanical performance in one of the world’s largest paper-recycling ...

A Chinese-backed project in New South Wales has won A$10 million ($6.5 million) in government funding for a processing facility that proponents say would be Australia’s first large-scale producer of ...

Companies that have poured hundreds of thousands into the UK safety review for CBD now face the likelihood that approvals won’t come through the national system before regulatory control reverts to ...

A new architectural prototype suggests European researchers and industry partners are making progress toward using long-fiber hemp in structural composite applications, a development that could open ...

Spain and Portugal are launching a joint initiative aimed at developing an array of applications in continuing efforts to kickstart a viable hemp economy in the Iberian Peninsula. The project, called ...