The Canadian agricultural company Future Farm Technologies Inc. has announced that it is entering the final planning stages for the construction and operation of a cannabis research and development facility in Carpinteria. The facility will be one of two locations for the jointly owned company that Future Farm is in the process of forming with Rahan Meristem, a global agro-biotechnology company.
The build-out consists of construction of the analytical lab, which will be the core function of the facility, the purchase of its equipment and the recruitment of researchers. Once work is completed in late March 2019, the company will conduct research in areas such as cell culture, molecular genetics, analytical chemistry, phenomic analysis and computation. Future Farms hopes that the Carpinteria team’s findings and ongoing research will lead to “the development of valuable elite cannabis strains for sale to large growers and to highly efficient tissue culture production so that the elite strains can effectively become commercialized,” according to the company’s press release.
