MAIN DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF HEMP HARVESTING TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

Many years of research and observation have proved the prospects of applying industrial hemp harvesting technologies
for dual-use by a reasonable set of machines in the processes of both obtaining seeds and raw materials for fibre production. It
has been established that the implementation of the developed technology for harvesting industrial hemp, based on the use of
general-purpose agricultural machinery, in comparison with classical harvesting technologies, reduces labour costs per 1 ha by
87.5%, production costs by 13.5%, while increasing the level of profitability by 32%. The proposed new technologies for
harvesting industrial hemp, along with the well-known classical ones, make it possible to obtain both seeds and raw materials
in the form of straw for the production of long or uniform bast, and trust for the production of long or uniform fibre.