Hemp Farming—Reaping

Since the hemp crop is one of the closely guarded crops that needs the perfect balance of the initial ingredients and the cultivation necessities, the planning for the harvesting of the crop provide a crucial juncture in the well being of the crop and the seeds thereafter that are used to develop into various uses. Any primary knowledge of the reaping of the crop is not sufficient for the outcome of the harvest. The hemp crop has proved itself worth of being utilized in different prospects and the harvest period reminds of the way in which it would be put to use.

Apart from the medicinal and the psychoactive use of the crop that is mostly misunderstood, the industrial hemp farming follows some general trends. The hemp after its removal from the field is broken and battered by the laborers with the help of machines and the produce is then tied up in stones. Small plots are harvested by hand and the plants are cut 2 to 3 cm above the soil and are then left in the ground to dry.

The development of decortications facilities improves the product range of hemp. Other processes such as field chopping and retting of hemp fields, which allows microbiological breakdown of bonds between fiber and hurd, helps in speeding up of the mechanical separation of the crop. The fiber can be then cottonized to generate short fiber for the cotton spinning machinery. Thermo mechanical pulping, which involves the separation of the fiber by steam and machinery is being recently used for the reaping of the crop.