These researchers for the Canadian Department of Agriculture tested over 350 varieties of Cannabis in Ottawa, Ontario. This awareness of the separateness of the two types has vast agronomic potential. Reveals the unfortunate connection between hemp and the drug Cannabis. Shows how fiber and seed hemp grown for industrial purposes has no psychoactive effect. Gives current yields and shows where hemp is grown in France.
Interestingly hemp is used as a wind-break in the hedgerows of the Rhone River valley.
Used as fish bait. Various uses for hemp in specialty papers. Utilization of the whole hemp stalk, including the hurds could make the crop more economically viable. A. Bosia, and D. Nisi, pp. Italy produced half the world's hemp after World War II with 560,000 tons per annum.