Growth industry hits $1b high note

The Asterion farm will have 40ha of cannabis in four 10ha greenhouses on the 75ha site that will export through Wellcamp airport to the world.The centre will be more akin to a hi-tech pharmaceutical plant than a farm, with labs producing more than 10,000 plantlets a day, growing into 500,000kg of cannabis a year in the high security compound.Asterion’s Dave Holland said growing conditions were scientifically controlled, down to the amount of light allowed in to the self-contained blackout rooms and…



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