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veyed our urgency to
Hearth Minister Allan
hock.". •
Health Canada released
• long,awaited new regula-
tions .for the commercial
hemp industry on ileo, 27
1997. •
Tics pleased the federal
Liberal government is
helping to capitalize on
this export opportunity,
working with rural. Canada
to provide, increased sta-
• bili.ty," said Ur in: a recent.
press release, adding
"Millions; of local ,dollrirs
arewaiting to be spent,. .h
Pain Court, $xeter and
'ilaware,for capital pro.
,jests and: marketing. it's
great to see local people
leading the charge -for an
early start Ina unique mar.-
ket. Matey farriers =just.
wailing, to ,pinup at the
Chance
The. Lakeshore
Advaneee: spoke to I ime
recentIy at an .Exeter- area,.
business that wishes .to
remain an.onymicrus for.
fear ,of being swamped
with .phone is'at
this Ioeatian that cultiva
tion .and processing equip-
ment for hemp is being
developed.
About five years ago,
Kime formed: Hemplitle'
and 'beeante' active . in.
researching hemp; "i reg',
ogrrized the controversial
nature of it. Research was '
needed." In the summer of
1993 he attended a display
at the Lane ton Heritage
Museum on Howard
Fraleigh, a'•local farmer
who grew flax and' hemp
and developed. modern "
processing equipment in.,
the late teens to the 'early
1930s. Then in 1938,.
Canada prohibited;hemp
production under the'
°plum .and Narcotics,
Control Act. During World
War 1I, the Canadian and:
U.S. governments lifted
the restrictions on, hemp
production.:: to provide`
materials. .for . the 'war •
-effort, rne1udirig eiothrog,.
"I ,am amazed,at' the
history of hemp and what":
other Countries are doing,"
says Kinie,
gime is a pioneer in:
modernhemp production
in Canada. In 1994. hris
still young company
obtained the first licence
of modem times to legally
grow .hemp - 10 acres on
Joe Strobel's farm near'
xillsonbutg,:
• "We found: out all the
problems (of growing
hemp). We have been
doing research trials since
growing, harvesting,, pro-
cessing. This past year we
grew 100 acres of hemp in
Middlesex," said the
Hempiine presidcnt..The
exact location of their
crops were not publicized
because of curiosity. "It
wouldhave been a full-
•
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Fibre
Cor
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Cross Section of H.epep•Ste*
to Helinpline Inc. -1995:
Cross section of hemp stalk shows, valuable
bast fibre used In textile production.
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at the chance
time job doing field
tours:,,
Kine says it'. taken
a,whil'e to learn how to
grow hemp properly.
The company has
designed its caul state of
the art equipment for pro-
cessing They have built a
prototype and the compa-
ny- islooking at setting ups
full turn -key :hemp pro
•ceasing centres in the
future.
-"There's a lot of differ- .
ent business structures you
could put into place,', says
;T£ime. It's well established
that hemp is easy to grow
but there's no point in
growing it if there's no
market, he says. He cau-
tions farmers front jump-
ing into it unless they have
contracts to sell the bailed
fibre:
Indiividual fanners will
have to own a lieenee'
before they carr, grow
hemp. There will be strict
regulations on the destruc*
tion of the leaves ,and°.
flowers, Police checks: into•
erirninal backgrounds,.
rules on locked storage of
harvested hemp stalks, etc..
liewpline is planning to
contract farmers in
Middlesex and Possibly
Haldamand-Norfolk and
• Huron to.grow 1,000 acres
of hemp in this first `legal'
year. We 11 make :sura'
they have the•seed and'•
market for the .ercrp;" The
company iso going to be
contracting equipment
building and setting up a
processing plant snutlt of
London for this year's •
p.
cro ,
Another Ontario coin -
party .that's involved in
hemp production is ICenex
Ltd. of Pain Court. And
Kline says therre corn-
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