Canapa Mundi 2017 – The 3rd edition of the Italian Hemp Fair.
Canapa Mundi took place on 17, 18 and 19 February 2017.
As every year the show was held in Pala Cavicchi Via R. B. Bandinelli 130 20 minutes away from the center of Rome. Hemp production techniques and its derivatives are the main themes of this fair.
Foglie d’Erba stand featuring Horticoled’s XMAX V4
Some statistics :
8,000 m2 for more than 16,000 visitors and 118 exhibitors, this annual show is at its 3rd edition. Thanks to its success, the 4th is already announced by its organizers on 16, 17 and 18 February 2018.
As in 2016, Horticoled was present on the stand of his Italian distributor, Foglie d’Erba.
Hemp under XMAX 4 V4 lighting
Culture of Hemp
Hemp cultivation comes back to the Neolithic era, the properties of its vegetable fiber allowed to find multiple purposes.
Hemp is then industrialized, you can find it in the textile sector, in construction, and finally sound and thermal insulation under the form of brick.
In food, the high proportion of essential fatty acids in its seeds would allow the plant to reduce malnutrition in certain countries. Hemp seed oil is one of the best oils in terms of essential fatty acid profile (EFA) with flax seed oil.
Bricks, fiber and hemp shavings for construction and fabrics field
What else ?
Hemp is used to build solid ropes, a hemp rope of 12mm thick can bear a weight of one ton.
In composite materials, along with plastics and in paper manufacturing, it limits the consumption of their usual components, thus reducing the environmental impact …
Hemp is an alternative to conventional fuel, it can be used as a biofuel.
However, the cultivation of hemp was forbidden for a time in many countries like Italy.
Hemp culture in Italy
Hemp has been cultivated for a very long time in Italy. In the 19th century, 60% of the Italian provinces cultivated hemp, some of them, such as Bologna, Venice or Naples, were heavily dependent on hemp farms. However, as with its Western neighbors, its culture was quickly dropped at the beginning of the 20th century, it eventually became unpopularized to the point of disappearing almost entirely and finally becoming prohibited.
It is only in 2011 that the licensed Italian farmers were again allowed to cultivate the plant by the legislation. They now scrupulously check the traceability of the productions. For example, now each plant is assigned a unique identification and tag, such as an information sheet containing data about its owner and the serial number of its business.
By 2015, hemp cultivation represented more than 800 hectares in total, which is a 100 times less than at the end of the 19th century. However, in less than 5 years, the hemp industry has recovered very rapidly in a country where they have been completely banned, and the volume of farms is expected to grow significantly at the same time as production, as demand is increasing.
In Italy, it is in the construction sector that hemp is the most exploited. The production is then exported or transformed locally to build homes made of hemp fiber.
What makes the success of the Canapa Mundi
This great gathering around the culture of hemp is more than a simple grouping of exhibitors, the Canapa Mundi is also a meeting point for all its followers, traders and consumers, where some inform and others learn.
Collaboration is highlighted during this event, a place of exchange between professionals and their customers.
Since it is a show, its exhibitors will inevitably enter in competition, a friendly competition in harmony with the atmosphere.
Each one presents its products, its experiments and its innovations. Cultivation techniques evolve and so does patterns of consumption.
Pastas and oils and other hemp derivates
High tech & Hemp
Canapa Mundi is an opportunity to focus on the best developing technologies for the handling of hemp and its various applications in a wide variety of sectors.
3D printer using organic hemp plastic
Canapa Mundi : In a few words
The Canapa Mundi is somehow traveling in time by telling the merits of a plant offering infinite possibilities, capable of preserving our environment by being an alternative to the use of fossil energy and becoming a contribution to the fight against the hunger in the world. Canapa Mundi wants to promote hemp, to explain the techniques linked to its production and the multiple commercial opportunities.
The Horticoled team can accompany you in all your project culture. From simple greenhouse cultivation, to automated multi-layer cultivation according to your farming goals and budgets.
