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Richard Evans is on a mission to save the world with hemp.
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Richard says hemp is "renewable, sustainable and clean" and can be used to "create foods, proteins, fibres and medicines".If that wasn't enough, Richard also says the plant would be useful for decontaminating soil, storing carbon and could even be a contender to replace the oil industry.
The diverse potential of hemp is why Mirreco created its specialised machine—a world-first invention capable of processing hemp in a new way.
"I realised a few years ago that the bottleneck in the global hemp industry is processing," says Richard.
The machine allows for processing at farms, with rapid conversion into numerous materials that can be used for many purposes.
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin saved cotton farming in the American South. Perhaps Mirreco's machine could do the same for hemp?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 13 2019, @01:44AM
You didn't take that fertilizer bit far enough. It requires almost no fertilizer, true, but it actually adds to the soil. Cotton and corn are the two crops that deplete the fertility of the soil the worst. All other crops tend to put something good back into the soil, and hemp is almost as good as a legume crop in that respect. Hemp was an important part of crop rotation when it was commonly grown.