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Report: Rosemary Grant
Tasmania's poppy processors are seeking increased quantities of poppies, and are offering farmers better contracts to grow at least 20,000 hectares of the specialist medicinal crop this year.All three companies operating in Tasmania have raised prices payed to farmers in a bid to increase production. The newest processor, TPI Enterprises, is also trying to extract more alkaloids using a unique patented process.TPI director, Jarrod Ritchie took reporter, Rosemary Grant inside the wire perimeter of TPI Enterprises' poppy processing facility near Cressy, to see the technology that extracts 98 per cent of the opiates from poppy straw and gives the company its competitive advantage."You can imagine essentially a large coffee percolator, or coffee plunder," Jarrod Ritchie said."We take that finely ground poppy straw, we don't use organic solvents in here, so we have a water based process. What we do is add a few little chemicals that are plant acids and that enables us to extract out from the poppy straw into a liquid, which we separate from the poppy straw using that large blue sort of plunger."
In this report: Jarrod Ritchie, director of TPI Enterprises
Tasmania's poppy processors are seeking increased quantities of poppies, and are offering farmers better contracts to grow at least 20,000 hectares of the specialist medicinal crop this year.All three companies operating in Tasmania have raised prices payed to farmers in a bid to increase production. The newest processor, TPI Enterprises, is also trying to extract more alkaloids using a unique patented process.TPI director, Jarrod Ritchie took reporter, Rosemary Grant inside the wire perimeter of TPI Enterprises' poppy processing facility near Cressy, to see the technology that extracts 98 per cent of the opiates from poppy straw and gives the company its competitive advantage."You can imagine essentially a large coffee percolator, or coffee plunder," Jarrod Ritchie said."We take that finely ground poppy straw, we don't use organic solvents in here, so we have a water based process. What we do is add a few little chemicals that are plant acids and that enables us to extract out from the poppy straw into a liquid, which we separate from the poppy straw using that large blue sort of plunger."
In this report: Jarrod Ritchie, director of TPI Enterprises
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