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I went to Heilongjiang Province to visit a cannabis field just before harvest. A fresh breeze was blowing through the lush cannabis fields. It reminded me of a bamboo forest...

During decortication (the process of separating the outer bast fibers from hemp), the inner woody core, called "ogara" in Japanese and "hurd" in English, is separated and stored in a...

This was the process I wanted to know more about. It was the one thing I most wanted to see with my own eyes. The biggest key is how to...

Field retting separates bast and core using rain and dew. A key, nature-driven step for textile hemp; timing and colour vary by weather.

We visited a hemp farm and a state-of-the-art Textile-Hemp spinning factory on the outskirts of Harbin. This region has long produced flax and hemp, but since the 2010s major investment...

At agricultural experiment stations, selective breeding continues, now reaching the third generation. The THC component has been reduced to below 0.3%, effectively undetectable. This is considered one of the world’s...