The CNR and hemp chain: a new opportunity for Agriculture in Southern Italy.

Italy is the first country in Europe for the development of the circular economy and the cultivation of hemp can represent a strong driving force for the development of sustainable agriculture with high added value. Because of its high degree of environmental sustainability, hemp is considered an eco-compatible plant with a strong action to contrast desertification and climate change and therefore particularly suitable for crops in the organic field. This crop may be for those beneficiary territories that in the past received aid for crops that have caused negative effects on the environment the new sustainability frontier, even if the agro-industrial chains are to be rebuilt, after a period of about 70 years in which cultivation has been suspended.