Clever Leaves and Paradise Seeds to Develop and Register Genetic Assets in Colombia
TOCANCIPÁ, Colombia, Feb. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clever Leaves Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CLVR, CLVRW) (“Clever Leaves” or the “Company”), a global medicinal cannabis company, announced today that through its partnership with award-winning Dutch seed bank, Paradise Seeds (“Paradise”), to develop and register high performance cannabis cultivars in Colombia, Clever Leaves will have exclusive license to cultivate some of these genetics, while Paradise will make other cultivars available to third parties for cultivation across Colombia and Latin America.
- TOCANCIPÁ, Colombia, Feb. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clever Leaves Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CLVR, CLVRW) (“Clever Leaves” or the “Company”), a global medicinal cannabis company, announced today that through its partnership with award-winning Dutch seed bank, Paradise Seeds (“Paradise”), to develop and register high performance cannabis cultivars in Colombia, Clever Leaves will have exclusive license to cultivate some of these genetics, while Paradise will make other cultivars available to third parties for cultivation across Colombia and Latin America.
- The two companies have already begun rigorous selection, phenotyping, and agronomic trials of several Paradise varieties at Clever Leaves’ facility in order to register market-leading cultivars for production and commercialization.
- This partnership marks the first agronomic registrations of Paradise genetics in Colombia, enabling the first licensed cultivation and production of Paradise strains for export to global medicinal cannabis markets.
- Luc Krol, Founder and CEO of Paradise Seeds, said: “We are thrilled to collaborate with Clever Leaves to develop and register our genetic assets in Colombia.