ONSA grants import licenses to 250 farmers for ‘Indian cannabis' seeds

The National Office for Health Safety of Food Products (ONSA) has granted licenses to 10 actors to import cannabis seeds for 250 farmers and more than 20 cooperatives.

The imports will allow for the grow an area of more than 200 hectares, a source familiar with the matter tells Hespress AR.

The licenses granted came after applications submitted by a total of 12 importers for 330 farmers, and were submitted by the National Office for Health Safety of Food Products, while the seeding phase is expected to begin next May, planting the first legal crop in the Kingdom.

Obtaining a license from the National Office for Health Safety in order to import cannabis seeds requires the need to obtain in a first stage a license from the National Agency for the Legalization of Activities Related to Indian Cannabis, which has been granted to today’s limits more than 530 licenses to practice the nine activities allowed in this field.

According to the same spokesman, the licenses granted by the agency are divided into about 450 licenses for farmers and farmers, 82 licenses for actors in the field, about 40 licenses for companies, and about 30 for self-actors; in addition to 9 licenses for cooperatives, stressing that “all efforts are focused on making these workshops a success.”

The law provides for the granting of licenses for nine activities, the first of which is related to the farmer, which is production and agriculture, and is carried out by the farmer, the son of the region and in the place, and has a direct relationship with the land and in the three codified areas (Shawon employment, township and Al Hoceima employment).

The second activities concern the production and exploitation of seedlings, the import of seeds and seedlings, or the export of seeds and seedlings, which are activities carried out by people who are not companies; while the rest of the activities are commissioned by companies, which are those related to the conversion, transportation, marketing, export and import of cannabis products.