Cannabis crops flourish on a Colombian hillside where Flora Growth is establishing sustainable, … [+] outdoor grows to supply hundreds of products.
Courtesy Flora Growth
Across the Americas and in many locations around the world, many of today’s cannabis crops are grown indoors, typically in large warehouses-turned-greenhouses that can produce multiple crops per year in regions that are legally hospitable to the plant, if not environmentally so.
And while many firms are working hard to create sustainable systems for a truly ‘green’ indoor grow, climate and energy realities have made the importance of outdoor cultivation ever clearer to execs like Luis Merchan.
As Chairman and CEO of Flora Growth, Merchan is planting his hopes for sustainable cannabis business in the hillsides of Bucaramanga, Colombia, where the all outdoor-sourced company has its ‘flagship’ cultivation and extraction…
