CURRENT HEMP CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGIES.

Hemp is cultivated for its high content in natural, durable, resistant fibres and for its oil-rich seeds. Hemp for seeds is cultivated to fulfil the requests in the technical, cosmetic, food, fodder fields. Hemp has the highest industrialization capacity of all technical plants. Because for a long period of time, the cultivation of hemp in Europe as well as in Romania was in decline, being continuously practiced only in certain European states, it is desired to emphasize how hemp can make an essential contribution to the development of innovative solutions regarding the relaunch of the industrial hemp sector. The paper presents some research results obtained during the realization and experimentation of some technical equipment intended for the mechanization of the works within the hemp cultivation technologies in different systems. The technology of establishing, managing and valorising the hemp culture for fibre or seed can have perspectives starting with the conventional system, the ecological or successive one and at the level of experimental lots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]