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Ikaros Africa: The Smart CBD Seeds Choice for Growing Medical Cannabis in Malawi

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Ikaros Africa Farm in Salima, Malawi

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-If you are growing medical cannabis in Malawi, buying high-CBD seeds from Ikaros Africa is the smart and easy choice. In fact, if you want to legally grow a high-value medicinal cannabis product, it’s the only choice. Why? There are three main reasons.

The Medical “Miracle Molecule”
Buying the wrong seeds will directly affect the quality and value of your end product and, as a consequence, the value of your entire business. Cannabis sativa or “hemp” plants contain hundreds of medicinal compounds, mostly cannabinoids and terpenes.

The two most common and beneficial ones are THC and CBD. THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) offers great value for treating certain medical conditions like pain and chemotherapy side-effects. However, THC is most famous for its psychoactive effect. In other words, THC gets you “high” – like local “chamba” does.

CBD is non-psychoactive, meaning it doesn’t cause a person to get “high”. In fact, in theright ratio, it can limit or even prevent the psychoactivity caused by THC. CBD also has outstanding medical potential, more than any other cannabis compound. It has even been called the “miracle molecule”.


CBD or cannabidiol, to give it its scientific name, is world-famous for being a natural alternative to many conventional drugs. It has shown potential to combat conditions like epilepsy, inflammation, anxiety, cancer, pain, depression, arthritis, diabetes, viruses and the list goes on.

High-CBD for High Profit
For cannabis growers, here’s the secret: not all hemp seeds are equal. In Malawian law,hemp plants must have less than 1% THC, but the CBD limit is not specified.

Low-CBD plants, commonly referred to as “industrial hemp”, are usually grown for purposes like making textiles, protein powders and animal feed. If your goal is to make effective medicine, you must buy high-CBD and not low-CBD seeds.

Ikaros Africa sells high-CBD seeds from award-winning, international breeders. They stock genetics capable of producing cannabis plants full of medicine-rich flowers, with more than 20% CBD. If you buy hemp seeds elsewhere, you might only reach as high as 14% CBD. This will result in a lower CBD yield and, ultimately, an end product value loss of over 30%.

So, now you know how valuable CBD is and why you should only buy high-CBD seeds. But to stay on the right side of the law, the where is just as important as the how and why.

Legal Growing in Malawi
In order to grow cannabis in Malawi you must be licensed by the Cannabis Regulatory Authority (CRA) and you must buy seeds from a legal source. Ikaros Africa Ltd. is currently the only legal way to buy the highest-CBD seeds in Malawi, which you need in order to grow highly-effective, medical-grade cannabis.


The Government of Malawi passed the Cannabis Regulation Act, 2020, which decriminalized cultivation, production, processing, storage, distribution and use of cannabis for three purposes: medical, industrial and scientific.


When growing, it’s important to match the purpose with the right genetics or, in other words, the right seeds. When growing cannabis for medical or scientific purposes, it makes sense to only buy seeds that will produce high amounts of medicinal CBD.

Remember, low-CBD hemp seeds are best used for industrial purposes, not for making medicine.
Ikaros Africa: The Smart Choice

There you have it. Ikaros Africa is the smartest choice to legally buy high-CBD medical cannabis seeds in Malawi – they are the only licensed seller of 20%+ CBD seeds. Plus, they are the only company in Malawi to produce a legal CBD concentrate to date.

Their seeds are also all feminized – meaning they’re just about guaranteed to develop into only female plants, which produce the medicinal flowers full of CBD. To top it all off, their 6 licensed strains all come from award-winning, international breeders and are already proven to grow well in the Malawian climate.

All strains have undergone 3 years of research – under the watchful eye of the Department of Agricultural Research Services (DARS), the Malawi Police Service (MPS) and the Pharmacy, Medicines and Poisons Board (PMPB) – before being approved by the Ministry of Agriculture for commercial use in Malawi. All you have to do is simply select from their trusted selection of world-class strains.

Ikaros Africa values every member of the cannabis community. According to their Executive Director, Chauncy Mopho Jere, “Establishing long-term working relationships with customers is our primary objective. To achieve this, we focus on providing international genetics at affordable prices and we intend to do so for many years to come.”

If you have received a cultivation license, congratulations! The legal medical cannabis market in Malawi is about to explode – in the best way possible. So don’t waste any time.

Make the smart choice before growing season starts and buy legal cannabis seeds to grow high-CBD medical cannabis

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