Hemp has big advantages, also for the agriculture. Only a few farmers still knows how it can be useful for the pollination. It’s only the bees who can transport the pollen, sowing hemp around for example a potato field makes them stay a little longer!

Besides that it also keeps harmful insects at a distance and can also prevent the formation of fungus on some crops.

Hemp is very keen on a temperate climate like ours, it doesn’t ask special treatment of the soil and it grows almost everywhere. Hemp can be cultivated in crop rotation (with mais and beets for ex) and alone.

The crop can be sowed from March until June and needs only four months to be fully grown (2 – 3 meters). Used as a rotation crop, it prepares the soil for the next crop. The long roots and fallen leaves will become humus for the next crop.

Hemp consumes a lot of nitrogen but needs only a little humus and it doesn’t exhaust the soil. Hemp don’t need a lot of water and is not labour-intensive.

Hemp is surely strong enough to grow without pesticides and herbicides. That’s not only good news for our environment and health, but also for the farmer’s wallet!

In Asia, hemp is used frequently to cure animals. A ball of hemp flowers, sugar and grains is given to the cattle to cure colics, diarrhoea and maggots. If you give hemp seed to your chicken on a regular basis, they will keep laying eggs without interruption!

Healthy animals, healthy crops, a healthy soil and a healthy environment gives a better yield!