Marocco s gouvernement decided to get actively involved in the cannabis scene
And “legelized “ cannabis (hemp) cultivation a few years back
A project that was most likely based on numbers of 2018/2020 when cbd wa still worth gold
The cbd cultivation didn’t work out so
Beldia the local landrace
Was allowed to the program
Beldia is not a pure bred landrace
Beldia is a autoflower strain that gets pollinated year after year with god knows what and does have a cannabinoid content off maximum 5% by weight
Wich is present in the average ratio
60% thc-a 30% cbd-a and 10% minors
So the official body of gouvernement is called ANRAC
And with high hopes the program was launched
300 tons of biomass where cultivated in 2023 of wich only 225 kg where sold
In 2024 4000 tons where cultivated in the program sales are still pending
What I wonder is that this program will slowely kill cannabis in marocco
For very few realize that by introducing cbd cultivars the local beldia will slowely
Get pollinated by these and that in time
A 50/50 cbd/thc strain will emerge at best and if cbd is dominant maybe even higher ratios of cbd
The ratio s in beldia are already a nightmare since any extractor will know that 5% at best cannabinoid content is a bad business model
And the content of thc /cbd a makes this even worse for isolation of each is extremely hard and expensive
And the costumer wants isolates
1 million people relay on cannabis cutler it s their bread and butter
Of this million only 5% at best make money by organizing export
95% of thes farmers are poor they can t afford seeds or irrigation so beldia iss their only hope
I don t think it a done on purpose by the gouvernement but it sure will kill a once famous cultivar
Nature always prevails and beldia as we know it will be no more
Yes if seeds where available for free some steering of outcome might be possible but seeds are expensive for farmers so they usethe one s from last years crop
Honestly only polyploids make sense for this program since all cultivars are heavily seeded and putting a valeu on seeded biomass is a nightmare
Since by weight seeds can be 30-50% of the total mass
ANRAC doesn t realize the failures they are incuraging from the start
It s not easy to figure out the right solution I have little hope
For the masses
We need a platform that connects the various communities/societies of Morocco with the rest of the world, in the sense of being discovered and thus being able to do business, I’m not just talking about THC But also CBD and CBG, because I’m pretty sure that if there are tons of CBD or CBG biomass sitting around and they don’t know who to sell them to,A kind of consortium where they bring their goods there and sell them to them for a small commission.In your opinion is it a bad idea, or one of the good ideas that are unrealizable for some reasons?
The idea is good
At thesaurus time farmers where projected ridiculous prices by anrac
And before they realize that it has become a commodity wil take a few years
It s very common that biomass is offered for sale at 10k -40k per ton (1000kg) with a content of 5% cannabinoid s
It s rough
We need a kind of non-profit company that goes to all the various agricultural companies to propose selling the product for them, I’m talking about products that can be sold in Europe,We all already know that those THC maybe manage other “consortia” but maybe it could be of help to many people, maybe subsidies from the state who knows.They could then perhaps have access to higher quality knowledge and seeds, even simply CBD or CBG. It’s a pity that their government doesn’t have much desire to be useful to them, even if Although it can be said that they live only on exports of their materials.
Treu in time things will get better
For the rich that is
But the poor will perish the way things are gooing now
Beldia is bad from a business point of view
The ratio of cannabinoids make it impossible for extraction let alone the yields
It is useless for extraction no matter wich extraction tech is applied
Always a high thc content for cbd products
Always a high cbd content for thc products
And even the cheapest femenized seed is at 15 cent so to expensive for the average farmer
Let alone polyploids that will cost at least 40Ct a piece
Are you telling me they still stumble into fuckup after fuckup while Morocco’s Finest have already been exiled to Europe in order to provide cultural enrichment and impromptu amateur street surgery?
Not necessarily. Our water process produces >99.9% CBD isolate with <10 ppm THC. We haven’t bothered trying to collect the THC as we’re a CBD shop and the THC levels are very low, but there is no fundamental reason you couldn’t collect both. it’s something I plan to explore later on, though it’s not super high up on the priority list.
THCA would be harder to collect/isolate for us, but high purity “distillate” shouldn’t be a problem.
Not ideal but still very viable. Anyone who can’t make money at 5% better be craft scale or they’re gonna be fucked in the coming years.
4% is viable with ethanol with an efficient operation.
The high end is about what hemp sells for here in Canada. Still a better cash crop than most other agricultural crops where you get under $1000/acre for the produce.
I agree on all accounts reason I am still in marocco
And indeed I have no doubt that I will survive in this tighter money wise market but one must admit that the margins are thin and by no means viable on a grand world market scheme
I taking care of my own genetics
So I ll be ok
But as a whole the government did not think this treu wisely
I’m pretty sure Morrocan varieties are similar to other North African varieties, supposedly the hash I was getting was marketed as Morrocan but really it was grown in the Sinai and Negev. In southern Egypt the local flower is different more similar to equatorial varieties. They all have the semi autoflower trait and are probably related through trade hundreds or potentially even thousands of years ago. I really hope conservation efforts are being made to catalogue local varieties at different periods of time as genetic dilution seems to always be occurring.