Two papers were presented by representatives of the Polish Institute of Natural Fibres which demonstrated the current state of Polish hemp cultivation.
Hungarian hemp breeder and researcher Ivan Bocsa summarized his decades of involvement in hemp breeding and gave an overview of currently available varieties of fibre hemp.
The only French representative at the Bioresource Hemp Symposium was Michka , an author and journalist from Paris, where it has been legal for centuries.
Canada's representative at the Bioresource Hemp symposium was Gordon Reichert, an employee of the Market Analysis Division of Agriculture &Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).