From ancient times Chernihiv region was famous for flax growing. Now some other commodities like sunflower, corn, soya are cultivated on the fields where fibre flax once prevailed. So how did it come that flax growers of Polissia region lost their positions? Read more
Ihor Samoilenko’s article runs about the cultivation of oil flaxseed as an alternative to sunflower seed. The journalist inquires if this blue-blossomed baby can have a chance against the giant with a solar crown? Bohdan Cheremkha, first deputy director general of BZK Grain Alliance Ukraine AB in the north of Ukraine, Chernihiv region, says that …
Within a framework of the educational project “Hemp university”, the Institute of Bast Crops of NAAN along with the Association “Ukrainian technical hemp” held a training workshop “Industrial hemp: growing, harvesting, processing” on April, 2-3. This event was aimed at teaching basic skills of industrial hemp cultivation to the agricultural producers, clarifying the prospects and …
Public Union “Flax and Hemp Development Association of Ukraine”