The industrial park Ma'Rijany (Zhytomyr region) plans to double its industrial hemp processing capacity, Dmitry Kisilevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, reported on Facebook.
He noted that as of early August 2025, the plant can process 10,000 tons of hemp annually. Expanding the cultivation area to 4,000 hectares will allow processing up to 20,000 tons of raw materials per year. In the 2025 season, over 1,600 hectares of industrial hemp fields are located within a 20 km radius around the park.
“Currently, the industrial park Ma'Rijany is actively persuading farmers in Zhytomyr region to switch from unstable and politicized grain deliveries to the EU to long-term contracts with Ukrainian customers for a new promising and traditionally Ukrainian crop. Meanwhile, global demand for hemp fiber is growing — this provides better financial guarantees for farms that become partners of the industrial park,” Kisilevsky wrote.
The MP expressed confidence that the industrial park has enough free space to accommodate the next stages of advanced hemp processing.
In May 2025, the industrial park Ma'Rijany launched the largest primary industrial hemp processing enterprise in Ukraine. The company "Ma’Ryzhany Hemp Company" revived an old flax factory and built a modern production facility with a capacity of 14,000 tons per year of long fiber for the textile industry.
It is expected that by-products of processing — short fiber and hurds — will find applications in nonwoven materials (thermal and sound insulation), paper, construction blocks, particleboard, and bioplastics.
The Ma'Rijany industrial park occupies about 30 hectares — the territory of the former flax processing plant. It will be the first European park for primary processing of bast fiber crops. Registered as an industrial park in August 2024. Over 700 jobs are planned to be created.
