Netherlands: Overview of the Market of Industrial Hemp in the Netherlands and Its Potential as Bio-based Material

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   NL2025-0002
This report describes the current trends and developments of the industrial hemp sector in the Netherlands. Key highlight include the Netherlands’ National Approach Biobased Building, a strategy for construction through which it aims to have 30 percent of all newly built houses and utility buildings constructed with at least 30 percent bio-based construction materials by 2030. Hemp can play a role in this ambition. The report further provides an overview of the Dutch hemp market, and may be read as update to NL2020-0015 An Overview of the Dutch Hemp Market.

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