On this week's Hemp Podcast, we speak with Jeff Whaling of the National Hemp Association, who recently returned from a trip to Africa.
The trip was funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture Emerging Markets Program grant and focused on hemp export development to Malawi, Rwanda and Ghana.
Whaling said the purpose of the visit was to “investigate the barriers to exporting U.S. hemp products to these three countries and report back to the Department of Agriculture.”
In Malawi, Whaling met with government officials, including President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, who he said was impressed with cannabis's economic potential in improving food security and creating an industry.
One obstacle Whaling found is that hemp isn't on the World Food Programme or the United States Agency for International Development's list of ingredients.
The exemption would prevent U.S. exports of hemp-based nutritional products to Africa, Whaling said.
Whaling also spoke about the Lancaster County Hemp Circuit, which took place last month, an event he was instrumental in inviting Betsy Londrigan, administrator for the USDA Rural Business Cooperative Service, to attend.
Whaling said his attendance signals USDA's interest in supporting the hemp industry, which could potentially receive billions of dollars in funding through rural development programs that Londrigan oversees.
Also on this week's show, Steve Groff follows up on a white deer he saw on the way to Cornell University's Hemp Field Day.
As you might expect, the story continues.
A lot more.
An army base. A nuclear warhead. A women's protest camp. A fence. A herd of inbred deer.
Who would have thought that one white doe could cause so much trouble?
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