Fiji Discusses Opportunity Of Securing Hemp Seeds From Canada

There have been discussions on Fiji’s ability to secure industrial hemp seeds from Canada.

The Attorney-General and Minis­ter for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khai­yum, confirmed this while speak­ing in Parliament on Wednesday.

Mr Sayed-Khaiyum said the Gov­ernment had been informed by the United Nations (UN) that Canada has some of the best industrial hemp seeds.

“We also met up with two British Columbian Ministers. British Co­lumbia is equivalent to a State that is over Canada. We met honourable Ravi Kahlon who is the Minister for Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation and the Minister for Labour, honourable Harry Bains, and we also discussed with them about opportunities in industrial hemp,” he said.

Response to MP Gavoka

“Honourable Gavoka, I saw there was an article in the Fiji Times saying that “we want to introduce industrial hemp as a back door bringing marijuana” which is re­ally quite obtuse too for him to say that.

“Industrial hemp is obviously quite different to normal marijua­na that you smoke with the THC levels that is higher than one per cent and they were quite keen to as­sist us in respect of helping us get­ting industrial hemp seeds in col­laboration with the Fiji National University Agriculture School and of course through the Ministry of Agriculture once we are able to roll that out and there is quite a lot of work been done in that respect.”

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