New Partnership Will Boost Hemp Production in the Pacific Northwest

3 Rivers Biotech Ltd., a plant biotechnology company specializing in hemp tissue culture, has entered into a joint venture agreement with Washington State and British Columbia-based JRT Nurseries Inc. to produce and supply premium, pathogen-free, tissue-cultured hemp plants to the rapidly expanding hemp market.

Through the agreement, JRT will provide full, exclusive access to its tissue culture lab and greenhouse facilities located in Mount Vernon, WA. The Mount Vernon facility comprises a 14,000 square-foot tissue culture lab and 40,000 square feet of attached propagation greenhouses, with a combined production output of up to 12 million plants per year. 3 Rivers will provide hemp varieties sourced through strategic partnerships with breeders, manage all hemp-related operations, and propagate tissue culture hemp clones for marketing and sale to the hemp industry.

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“We are excited to be partnering with JRT, a proven tissue culture operation that has had a successful history of propagating millions of plants per annum at its Mt. Vernon facility,” says Robert Allen, CEO of 3 Rivers. “These assets, combined with our hemp expertise, create a world-class tissue culture operation that will feed into an emerging and expanding market. With a healthy treasury and wise, prudent management, we see this venture as being successful in both the near and far term.”

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