A Report For The

HEMPCO INDIA PROJECT

Pictures and Information concerning Manufacturing and Processing Hemp, Hemp Resources, Links, and The Many Answers To Hemp

Hemps rapid growth rate means it can provide the biomass required to preserve remaining forest resources and biodiversity while simultaneously producing multiple sustainable raw materials.

Conscious Planet Products created by Ken and Charles Holmes from Canada

Hemp is another word for the plant Cannabis sativa L. Marijuana comes from this same plant genus -- and so does broccoli and cauliflower. But the strains of hemp used in industrial and consumer products contain only a negligible level of the intoxicating substance delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.

Thus, industrial grade hemp is not marijuana. It just looks the same

HEMPCO INDIA PROJECT will only use the best seeds provided by countries and companies in Canada, Holland, and India to grow non-THC (0.3%) hemp for food, concrete, building materials, plastics, body care, fuel, textiles and many other products.

Why Hemp for food?

The products that are made in Canada from Conscious Planet and Living Harvest offer a natural way of detoxification and continued natural formulations to provide sustenance for our healthy bodies and when we have a healthy body, it makes for a healthy mind as we provide the nutrients needed for our beings.

Hemp food products make an excellent food supplement and a wonderful addition to any meal that we can make. Hemp seeds contain 25% high quality protein and 40% fat in the form of an excellent quality oil. Hemp oil is now coming on the market and can be used in so many ways. Hulled hemp seeds provide an excellent source for essential vitamins, oils, and can be used in many foods we make daily.

Hemp seeds are drug-free and extremely nutritious. Hemp seeds can be eaten whole, pressed into edible oil like soybeans, or ground into flour for baking. Hemp seeds are one of the best sources of vegetable protein. Hemp seeds contain a full complement of essential amino acids, essential fatty-acids (EFA'S), and have been shown to lower blood cholesterol and dissolve plaque in coronary arteries. Hemp has benefits as it contains natural vitamins, minerals and Omega complexes.

Because hemp is such a hardy plant, it can grow easily and abundantly almost anywhere, and can provide nutrition where other edible crops just won't grow. Hemp can even be cultivated in arid regions with poor soil like Saharan Africa or in places with a very short growing season like Scandinavia.

A cookbook with recipes for hemp seed and oil is available on the internet and on the Conscious Planet website. We will bring health to many people in this world that need it and at a lower cost than the production in Canada, USA, or Europe by working with the trusted companies in India like The Jains and utilizing the technology of Canadian firms like Holmes Enterprises, Conscious Planet and Eco-Vision Solutions Inc. we will create a substantially large product line for foods and materials for building new homes to businesses by working together to provide mankind with the natural nutrition and materials that we all need.

Why Grow Hemp?

Hemp has many uses that mankind can use to make a better world. Hemp consumes more CO2 than any other plant in the world. Global warming has been an issue in this world for the last 20 years now and we are constantly seeing a large rise of CO2 from the use of combustion engines and burning of resources such as coal, and gas. California, USA has used hemp to reduce the CO2 levels in their State and it has proven effective. The more mankind plants hemp, the more CO2 will be taken from our atmosphere, providing all of us cleaner air to breathe and live in.

Hemp is an ideal rotation crop for farmers worldwide. It puts down a taproot twelve inches long in only thirty days, preventing topsoil erosion. Its water requirements are negligible, so it doesn't require much irrigation and will grow in arid regions. It matures from seed in only 120 days, so it doesn't need a long growing season. Hemp's soil nutrients concentrate in the plant's roots and leaves. After harvest, the roots remain and the leaves can be returned to the fields. In this way, soil nutrients are preserved.

Hemp is also a beneficial crop for the Earth itself. It is very easy on the land. It doesn't need many nutrients, so it doesn't require chemical fertilizers. Hemp out competes other weeds, so it doesn't need herbicides to thrive. Even hemp strains that are 100 percent THC-free produce their own resins that make the crop naturally pest-free, so hemp doesn't require toxic chemical pesticides. Hemp actually leaves the soil in better condition than before it was planted.

Hemp for body care

Hemp seed oil is perfectly suited for hair and skin care. Its nutritional value, combined with its moisturizing and replenishing EFA's, make it one of the best vegetable body care foundations. Hemp seed oil's EFA complement includes polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega-3, omega-6, omega-9, linoleic acid, and gamma linoleic acids (GLA's). Although they are very effective in skin care maintenance, GLA's are rarely found in natural oils. Hemp is an excellent source of GLA's.

Paper Made From Hemp

Hemp paper is naturally acid-free. The oldest printed paper in existence is a 100 percent hemp Chinese text dated to 770 AD. Thomas Jefferson drafted both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution on hemp paper.

Hemp's cellulose level is almost three times that of wood, so it makes superior paper and yields four times as much pulp per acre as trees. The hemp paper process also utilizes less energy and fewer chemicals than tree paper processing and doesn't create the harmful dioxins, chloroform, or any of the other 2,000 chlorinated organic compounds that have been identified as by products of the wood paper process.

Hemp is a sustainable, annual crop that is ready for harvest just 120 days after going to seed, compared to trees which take tens or hundreds of years to reach maturity. Further, harvesting hemp doesn't destroy the natural habitats of thousands of distinct animal and plant species.

Historically, hemp was an important source of paper fibre until the early 1900's when all Hemp variations were made illegal by most world governments. Increase of demand for paper products worldwide was then provided by wood pulp and the process to make paper products were and still are utilizing harmful chemicals that hurt the Earth itself. Wood pulp paper rode the chemical revolution to its apex before the public health hazards of toxic chemicals were an issue and before the environmental consequences of clear-cutting forests were appreciated. The sustainability of Hemp for paper products out weighs anything any Forest or Pulp and Paper Company could do for the production of this product that we use everyday. The more production that there is, the lower the cost to the consumer is.

*The Truth of Hemp and Paper is that Hemp will produce 4 times more pulp to make paper goods than any tree is able to, providing us with a sustainable resource faster than any growth, of any tree could give us. It’s long term and short term ability to help with the pulp and paper industries is unsurpassable in this now eco friendly world.

So, it is up to us as citizens of this world to provide the products that the forestry and paper sectors are not providing the world.*

Hemp As Fuel/Bio-diesel

Hemp seeds have provided a combustible fuel oil throughout human history. More importantly, though, the same high cellulose level that makes hemp ideal for paper also makes it perfect for ethanol fuel production. Ethanol is the cleanest-burning liquid bio-alternative to gasoline. In one test, an unleaded gasoline automobile engine produced a thick, black carbon residue in its exhaust, while the tailpipe of a modified ethanol engine tested for the same 3,500 miles remained pristine and residue-free.

Ethanol is derived from plant cellulose. Plants absorb carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight and produce oxygen and cellulose, which contains the sun's energy captured in plant cells. When ethanol is used in a combustible engine, it releases energy, water vapour, and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is then absorbed by plants, along with water and sunlight, to create more oxygen and cellulose. It is a clean and sustainable cycle.

Since combustible engines that use gasoline are a primary source of carbon monoxide and greenhouse gases, alternative fuels such as ethanol could contribute significantly to the rejuvenation of our atmospheric air quality. Hemp provides a sustainable, renewable, and natural alternative to toxic fossil fuels.

Currently with the oil industry controlling so much of our energy for transportation to heating our homes, Hemp is a perfect crop for fuel rather than using our Food Crops that we feed the world with to make ethanol.

Hemp As Paint And Plastics

Hemp oil extract can also be used as an ingredient in non-toxic, biodegradable inks, paints, and varnishes. It is an ideal raw material for plant-based plastics such as cellophane as well as more recently developed cellulose-based plastics.

Henry Ford himself manufactured the body of an automobile from hemp-based plastic in 1941. The plastic was much lighter than steel and could withstand ten times the impact without denting. The car was even fuelled by clean-burning hemp-based ethanol fuel.

Hemp As Textile Fibre

Hemp is the longest and strongest plant fibre. It is extremely abrasion and rot resistant and was the primary source of canvas, sail, rope, twine, and webbing fibre for hundreds of years before nylon was patented by DuPont in 1937. Hemp was used for clothing, military uniforms, ship's rigging, shoes, parachute webbing, baggage, and much more. Christopher Columbus' ships were fully rigged in hemp. The U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides," was outfitted with over 40 tons of hemp rigging.

Because of the multitude of uses for hemp, the early Colonial American governments mandated its cultivation. Early American settlers even used hemp fibre as money and to pay taxes. Because of its length and strength, hemp fibre can be woven into natural advanced composites, which can then be fashioned into anything from fast food containers to skateboard decks to the body of a stealth fighter.

Concrete and Building Supplies From Hemp

Madame France Perrier builds about 300 houses per year out of hemp in France. Years ago she researched ways to petrify vegetable matter. During her studies, she found evidence in ancient Egyptian archaeological sites of hemp-based concrete. When she discovered the ingredients of the mix, she duplicated the method. She mixes hemp hurds (the inner fibre) with limestone and water, which causes the hemp to harden into a substance stronger than cement and only one sixth the weight. Madame Perrier' isochanvre is also more flexible than concrete, giving it a major advantage over conventional building materials, especially in areas throughout the world that are prone to earthquakes.

Bill Conde is the owner of the largest Redwood lumberyard in Oregon, and one of the few lumber men willing to admit hemp's benefits. His family has been in the lumber industry for generations. He is a firsthand witness to the destruction of the nation's pristine forests. The fiberboard offshoot of the lumber industry is one of the most threatening to the world's forests.

Fiberboard, or pressboard, is made by chipping trees into small pieces and then compressing the chips into boards using adhesives. The Forestry Industry is so destructive because chip plants can use young immature trees, which are just as useful for pressboard as older trees. These mills threaten to destroy even the youngest of forests. Conde and the highly regarded wood products division of Washington State University developed a method of fabricating tree-free pressboard out of hemp. The method uses existing technology and wood-chip mills. Their hemp fiberboard is superior in strength and quality to the same product produced using trees.

HEMPCO INDIA PROJECT CAN AND WILL FEED ALL PEOPLES NATURALLY WITH HEMP HEALTH FOOD PRODUCTS, AND THIS IS JUST THE START OF WHAT THE HEMPCO INDIA PROJECT WILL DO FOR THE WORLD.