IS THE CULTIVATION OF PLANTS FOR TEXTILE FIBERS A PROFITABLE BUSINESS FIELD?
Abstract
In traditional Romanian culture, hemp is one of the main plants from which fibers are obtained, along with flax. Flax and hemp have been part of the dowry of the Romanian people since the most distant times when they were cultivated and processed in the household system as almost every peasant family made their own clothes. In the last 30 years, the area cultivated with plants for textile fibers has registered a sharp decline. If in 1990 the area occupied by hemp culture was 16,629 ha, in 2020 hemp culture occupied only 1,191 ha, even though hemp has many uses, including obtaining construction materials, paper, food, medicine, cosmetics. In 2021, the cumulative turnover of the 13 companies active in the field of plant cultivation for textile fibers was 6,088,910 lei (1,237,482 euros), registering an average increase in the last 10 years of 204.73%.
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