{"id":60086,"date":"2019-01-29T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=60086"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T10:32:07","slug":"once-an-ambitious-producer-turkey-again-looks-to-join-industrial-hemp-cultivators-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/once-an-ambitious-producer-turkey-again-looks-to-join-industrial-hemp-cultivators-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Once an ambitious producer, Turkey again looks to join industrial hemp cultivators club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey is looking to spread cannabis production across its arable lands in order to make use of it in the industry, including automotive, paper, textile, and pharmaceutical sectors and cut its imports that have been widening the current account deficit.<\/p>\n<p>This week has witnessed the revival of talks on the now-limited but once widespread industrial agricultural crop in Turkey, when President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan raised the issue of mainstreaming hemp production during a meeting on municipal governance on Wednesday. Hailed by producers and aspiring farmers who are not able to cultivate the crop, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli also announced that the government will take steps to increase cannabis production, which is currently allowed in 19 provinces in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The widespread use of industrial hemp indeed makes it a very attractive agricultural product, particularly for countries like Turkey that rely on imported products for various synthetic raw materials to be used in the automotive industry, paper manufacturing, textiles, pharmaceuticals, among others.<\/p>\n<p>*Please <a href=\"https:\/\/idsb.tmgrup.com.tr\/2019\/01\/12\/f4594dbe-dfce-4fa8-a47c-d2a3a83b67ba\/1547247108146.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click to read this article as published in Daily Sabah print<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cannabis indeed is not an alien crop to Turkish arable land. Up until 1971, the year when the Turkish military released a memorandum and overthrew the government headed by late President S\u00fcleyman Demirel, who was unwilling to reduce cannabis production despite pressure from the U.S. administration at the time, Turkey was one of the largest producers in the world. In a historical anecdote, Demirel was quoted saying: &#8220;There are poppy fields in 20 cities and their surrounding area. We have a city named Afyon [Opium].&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey is looking to spread cannabis production across its arable lands in order to make use of it in the industry, including automotive, paper, textile, and pharmaceutical sectors and cut its imports that have been widening the current account deficit. This week has witnessed the revival of talks on the now-limited but once widespread industrial [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11877,13012],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-60086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-naturalfibres","tag-phytopharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60086"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=60086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}