NAKHON PHANOM: Maqui berry farmers in the province are usually asking the government to assist regulate the prices of cannabis after the sector began seeing a drop in worth due to an oversupply of the crop.
Jirawat Rungsri, 56, president from the Medicinal Herbs Neighborhood Enterprise of Em Kham in Sri Songkhram district, stated yesterday the prices decreased dramatically after the federal government began allowing the public to grow the plant.
Before cannabis was delisted as being a narcotics earlier this year, only farmers with permission from hospitals, medical centres and educational institutions were able to grow cannabis.
Mister Jirawat said he started the group to grow marijuana for medical purposes in 2020 in collaboration with Tambon Na Kham Health Promotion Hospital.
He stated the group had thirty members growing about 30, 000 cannabis plants when it 1st started.
During the group’s first harvest, members could earn 50, 000–100, 000 baht per month selling parts of the particular cannabis plant, including buds, leaves and roots, he mentioned.
However , prices of marijuana have dropped dramatically since.
“As anyone may grow cannabis today, they do not have to get permission to grow the plant, and we have more competitors exactly who drive cannabis costs down, ” this individual said.
He said the cost of fresh cannabis leaves has declined from your previous 15, 500 baht per kilogramme to 3, 000 baht. Fresh stems were priced at 10, 000 baht/kg during the past but today they are worth only 1, 000, he said.
He stated cannabis farmers in Nakhon Phanom have asked the government to help by announcing established prices farmers and customers can follow.
He said about twenty community enterprises within Nakhon Phanom intend to set up a marijuana cooperative to have a lot more bargaining power whenever negotiating prices with middlemen.