Court to decide on hemp production

The farmer, Daniel De Beer, was earlier this year given the green light to continue with hemp production by the High Court but the government took the case to the appeals court arguing that the licence to such production was granted illegally and had to be revoked.

De Beer had taken the government to court seeking a review of the decision that revoked his licence that was granted to him in October 2018 to produce the hemp plant on a large scale for industrial and medicinal purposes.