The Medicinal Cannabis Playbook – Genetic Breeding and Organic Production
Project start: 7 April 2022
Project length: 5 years
MPI funding: $13,023,120
Industry funding: $19,193,000
Industry partner: : Puro New Zealand Limited
Region: Marlborough
This project will trial and develop various techniques for growing high-value, organically produced medicinal cannabis commercially. By developing New Zealand owned IP and cultivars, local growers would be less reliant on imported varieties. As well as developing unique pharmaceutical-grade cultivars and seed stock, Puro will produce a production handbook that will be available to the wider industry.
Govt helps fast-track organic medicinal cannabis industry – Government media release
$13m grant turbocharges NZ’s medicinal cannabis industry – Puro
Puro quarterly progress report – July 2022 [PDF, 106 KB]
Puro quarterly progress report – October 2022 [PDF, 107 KB]
Puro quarterly progress report – December 2022 [PDF, 141 KB]
Puro quarterly progress report – April 2023 [PDF, 152 KB]
Accelerating New Zealand medicinal cannabis industry
Project start: 1 October 2021
Project length: 3 years
MPI funding: $761,136
Industry funding: $1,141,704
Industry partner: Greenlab
Region: Nationwide
This project will establish optimum cultivation practices for growing New Zealand-sourced strains of medicinal cannabis in a controlled environment. This information will enable licensed growers to consistently produce cannabis flowers with specific medicinal compounds.
