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By Kate Cornell
Jun 29, 2021 | 4:57 PM
CANTON, Miss. (WJTV) – The legalization of medical marijuana in Mississippi is still up in the air. Earlier this year, the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned a medical marijuana initiative that voters approved last fall.
However, one company is moving forward with their plans in Madison County. There is a vacant part of land on South Lake Circle near the Nissan plant in Canton that’s being transformed.
“Southern Sky Brands is a cannabis facility that we’re building here in Canton to support Mississippi’s medical marijuana program,” said Steve Merrit, COO of Southern Sky Brands.
The year 2020 brought enormous challenges affecting societies, economies, and people everywhere. For HarvestPlus, the top priority amid COVID-19 disruptions was to consistently innovate in order to minimize risks to food supply chains and to protect access to nutritious crops.
HarvestPlus and partners adopted new practices to ensure that smallholder farming families can still access and plant biofortified seed, receive training and technical support, and stay connected to crop markets. We focused on to making sure that vulnerable rural communities continue to receive health, immunity, and livelihood benefits from nutrient-rich crops.
An effective response to COVID-19 across continents
In Nigeria, HarvestPlus negotiated a 10 percent price discount with seed companies for Vitamin A maize seed and 20 percent discount for Vitamin A cassava stems. By linking agro-dealers in Niger, Kaduna, Ogun, Oyo, Enugu, and Imo States to seed companies that were offering the discount, farme