Hemp cultivation seeds can be produced and marketed in Switzerland beginning Jan. 1 after the government removed restrictions in the country’s agricultural seed law.
“The Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) enables the production and marketing of seeds and seedlings for the production of so-called ‘CBD hemp’ in agriculture,” the agency said in a statement announcing the changes to the seed law, which is guided by the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (WBF).
Despite the reference to CBD, the change affects all industrial hemp, according to the FOAG statement. “In order to enable the development of corresponding cultivation systems and plant propagation methods in agriculture, all provisions on hemp in the WBF’s seed and plant material ordinance were repealed,” the agency said.
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