Virginia’s first commercial hemp fiber processing plant, Vitality Farms, LLC, will soon be launched in Wythe County according to an announcement Governor Ralph Northam. The facility, currently operating as Appalachian Biomass Processing, plans on investing $894,000 and creating 13 jobs. The plant intends to purchase at least 6,000 tons of industrial hemp valued at $1 million or more from farmers in Virginia in the following three years.
In March, Governor Northam aligned Virginia’s hemp law to the 2018 Farm Bill by signing the bill legalizing commercial farming and processing of industrial hemp. The announcement was marked as the first economic development in...
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