GREENSBORO, N.C. Gateway Research Park will hold a conference next month to help budding entrepreneurs gain insights into the rapidly emerging North Carolina hemp industry.<\/p>\n
The Industrial Hemp Conference will take place at Gateway South in the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering auditorium Oct. 11 beginning at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
\"The Piedmont Triad Industrial Hemp Conference is about cutting-edge growth that offers a strong future, which is in line with the innovation and collaboration we have at Gateway, said John Merrill, executive director of Gateway Research Park.<\/p>\n
Since the passage of the national Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, interest and activity in the state have increased surrounding the research and business implications of industrial hemp as a crop in addition to North Carolinas $76 billion-dollar agriculture and agri-business industry.<\/p>\n
To read more on the conference, click hereto head to the Triad Business Journal's website.<\/p>\n
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