President Mario Abdo Benítez signed a decree allowing non-psychoactive hemp to be grown, processed and sold under authorisation from the agriculture ministry. A trial followed in five departments, with about forty growers and sixty hectares by 2021. The peasant federation was sceptical, recalling earlier crops promoted by the state that found no market.[1][2]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Paraguay here.
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