Besides cannabis the Netherlands nowadays also cultivates hemp. Already in the 17th century the dutch were growing a lot of hemp. At the time the hemp fibre was used to produce ropes and sails. Now farmers start cultivating it again on a large scale.
Ben Dronkers has a huge hemp-farm in the north of the Netherlands and Mr. Van Dalen has a special Hemp Eco store in Amsterdam, called Greenlands. Dronkers: ‘Hemp is the strongest multi-purpouse natural fiber there is! You can use it for many things like clothing, rope, for isolation, as cattle feed and you even can make petrol out of it. German car producers use it as environmental materials in cars’. A ARD Tagesthemen reportage.
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