A hemp crop without a buyer has no value — and the KOWR register shows 76 buyers for 1,681 growers (31.07.2026). The number of growers has quadrupled since 2022, while the number of buyers has fallen from 87 in 2024. The Ministry of Agriculture calls this imbalance a “fundamental problem” and announces a map of processing infrastructure; until it exists, you must compile the list of buyers yourself. The law is simple: above 1 ha for your own needs, you may sell only to a buyer entered in the KOWR register (unless you process it yourself — the 2026 act allows the sale of products processed from your own crop).
Seed contracting — IWNiRZ Hemp Programme. The only systemic contracting scheme in the country, since 2018: the institute sells elite and certified seed of its own varieties (Białobrzeskie, Tygra, Henola, Rajan), helps with registration, provides agronomic support, offers a mowing service and buys the entire seed yield at a set price. Enrolment for 2026 opened in March. Purchase prices in 2024: Henola 12–16 zł/kg, Białobrzeskie 15–20 zł/kg (WODR Poznań). Contact: biuro@programkonopny.pl, Poznań, ul. Wojska Polskiego 71b.
Purchase of consumption seed and biomass. Hemp King (Białystok) buys seed, straw, roots, leaves and flowering tops under a bilateral agreement; it cites historical prices: seed approx. 4,000 zł/t, straw 340–420 zł/t, expected profit 4–5 thousand zł/ha. HempFarm (Wiekowice near Darłowo): CBD/CBG flowering tops, biomass, seed, straw; own dryer 500 kg/h. NaturalCrop (Warsaw): contracting of organic hemp for seed with collection of raw material. On the igrit.pl agricultural exchange in 2026, offers of Henola at 6,700–7,300 zł/t and enquiries from grain elevators for feed seed appeared.
Straw purchase. Kombinat Konopny (Gronowo Górne near Elbląg) pays 700–800 zł/t in 2026 for retted straw delivered to the plant, within a radius of approx. 50 km, and is looking for plantations of 10–50 ha; in their technology the plants overwinter in the field, harvesting takes place in spring, and yield reaches approx. 12 t/ha in Żuławy. Green Farms (Hrubieszów) buys straw from partner farms and decorticates it mechanically — it does not publish prices. The farming press reported in February 2026 a purchase price of 300–350 zł/t, i.e. 360–560 zł/ha at 1.2–1.6 t of straw after seed threshing. For comparison, the German cooperative Hanffaser Uckermark (Prenzlau) pays, for the 2025 harvest, EUR 100/t for unretted straw and EUR 150–190/t for retted straw, on a basis of 12% moisture, stems up to 14 mm, length 60–100 cm, bales in netting, free of weeds, with delivery at the farmer's cost. Without a contract and without a plant within 50–100 km, straw is a cost, not income.
Fibre processors according to IWNiRZ: Lenkon (Stęszew — the institute's experimental plant: turbine, hackling, decortication, the main domestic producer of long fibre), Green Farms (Hrubieszów), Podlaskie Konopie (Dobrzyniówka — shives, fibre; their shives went into more than 50 buildings), Grupa Vox (Wałcz), Kombinat Konopny (Elbląg — fibre, shives, hemp wool, fabrics). The institute assesses that Poland has no spinning mill for long hemp fibre, and that capacity for industrial production of high-quality fibre is insufficient.
What to check in a contract: seed variety and origin (whether the buyer supplies it), price and quality base (moisture, purity, degree of retting, stem length and diameter), form of delivery (round bales in netting / cubes, transport at whose cost), term and place of collection, who bears the harvesting cost and whether the buyer provides a mowing service, sample settlement and complaints, reporting to KOWR (the buyer reports contracts by the end of July). French processors sign 1–5-year contracts with bonus-malus for quality — a good model for negotiation.
Export markets outside Poland: shives in Europe EUR 200–450/t (2022; 2026 offers: EUR 300–350/t with a minimum of 13 t), technical fibre approx. EUR 1,200/t (2022). CBD market after declines: isolate EUR 180–350/kg (2025–2026); no CBD product yet has full EU “novel food” authorisation (Prohibition Partners, 10.2025) — biomass for extraction is a market for those who have a buyer in writing.
The full list of 76 KOWR buyers is not published. We are compiling it on the hemp exchange — the “raw material” category covers both sale offers and buyers' enquiries; listings are free and verified. If you are a processor looking for growers, add a listing — it is the shortest route to farmers who are just planning sowing.