As a growing number of Canadian cannabis cultivators retreat from costly greenhouse expansions, more applicants than ever are readying lower-cost outdoor projects.
The number of authorizations to cultivate marijuana outdoors doubled to 33 so far this year from last summer’s 17, according to new figures from Health Canada.
Ten of those are microcultivators, meaning they’re limited to a canopy area of no more than 200 square meters (2,153 square feet).
Another 135 applications with an outdoor area are in the queue, the federal regulator told Marijuana Business Daily – 41 of which involve microcultivators.
Interest in lower-cost outdoor cultivation comes as large producers hit the breaks on greenhouse projects, which can cost upwards of 200 million Canadian dollars ($170 million) each.
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