US-based cultivation technician Max Jablonski planting the cannabis seedlings.Photo / RNZ - Tracy NealBy Tracy Neal of RNZSun, sea and soil: these are the key ingredients for growing New Zealand's largest-ever medical cannabis crop. Puro was set up in 2018 to guide the development of the plantation on the Macfarlane family farm in Kēkerengū. "New Zealand cannabis will be the best in the world"Workers seated on the back of a tractor feed through cannabis seedlings to be planted. Photo / RNZ - Tracy NealAldridge said the capital and labour-intensive business had taken millions of dollars to get to this stage. "The way the New Zealand regulations have been designed, and they have been well designed, is that New Zealand cannabis will be the best cannabis produced in the world.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 06, 2020 19:52 UTC